Jacob Little Giant — Barbara Claasen Smucker

An award-winning author tells the story of Jacob Snyder, whose age and height make him feel unwanted, until his father becomes involved in an exciting experiment, raising giant Canada geese to help prevent their extinction, and Jacob gets the job of taking care of them. Barbara Smucker has won a Canada Council Award, the Ruth Schwartz Award and the Brotherhood Award of the US National Conference of Christians and Jews. She has also written "Underground to Canada", "Days of Terror", "Amish Adventure" and "White Mist".