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Smucker, Dorcas |
Downstairs the Queen Is Knitting is Dorcas Smucker's brand new chronicle of family life with six fast-growing up kids. Downstairs the Queen Is Knitting follows Dorcas' two earlier and beloved collections, "Upstairs the Peasants Are Revolting" and "Ordinary Days." The kids are a bit older now, and Dorcas… |
Family |
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Smucker, Dorcas |
Imagine raising six spirited kids on a grass farm. Today. That'll test any mama's strength. Dorcas Smucker and her brood live out their days in full view in this collection of musings—picking blueberries while watching for bears, hoping for angels driving off the nearby freeway, moving into… |
Family |
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Smucker, Barbara |
The dramatic and courageous story of refugees from Russia. An actual event that happened in Berlin in 1946. |
Intermediate |
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Smucker, Barbara |
Selina is a Mennonite girl living in Pennsylvania in the 1860s. She loves her farm delights in the spring flowers and most of all, takes pleasure in watching her grandmother piece together a quilt. Grandmother is following the Bear Paw pattern using stitches and techniques that were brought to America… |
Living History Level 21 ⋅ Read-alouds 21 |
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Smucker, Barbara |
Through the eyes of a young Mennonite boy, Peter, you see life for Mennonites in the Russian Ukrainian villages just before Lenin came to power, and the great immigrations after he started his rule. |
Intermediate ⋅ Intermediate Readers ⋅ Living History Level 43 ⋅ Read-alouds 43 |
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Smucker, Barbara |
There's a place the slaves been whisperin' around called Canada. The law don't allow no slavery there. They say you follow the North Star, and when you step onto this land you are free. Taken away from her mother by a ruthless slave trader, all Julilly has… |
Living History Level 43 ⋅ Read-alouds 43 |