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Older readers may notice the simplified plotting and some plausibility gaps, but in general a wellwritten story. She won multiple awards for her work, including the vicky metcalf award, the canada council childrens literature prize, and. They moved to canada in 1969, where donovan taught at conrad grebel college in ontario while barbara worked as a librarian, first as the childrens librarian at kitchener public library and then as the head librarian of renison college 1977. It was first published in canada in 1977 and published in the united. Underground to canada by barbara smucker, paperback barnes. Barbara smucker books list of books by author barbara smucker. In 1939 she married donovan smucker, a mennonite pastor and academic specialising in christian ethics. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Barbara smuckers most popular book is underground to canada. In 2002, afrocanadians lobbied the tricounty district school board in nova scotia to remove underground to canada, john balls in the heat of the night and harper lees to kill a mockingbird from classrooms. The complainants objected to the depictions of black people and the use of the word nigger in.
Underground to canada is story about this women, her life as a slave, and her journey to escape from it. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Underground to canada study guide contains vocabulary and questions arranged according to grouped chapters of the novel, 47, 810, 1112, 14, 1517, 1819. Black people, slavory, and seperation, based on a book. Underground to canada kindle edition by smucker, barbara claassen, hill, lawrence. Underground to canada by barbara claassen smucker waterstones. It shocked me back then and its still just as horrific today.
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