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by Carrie Bender
  Bittersweet Journey
paperback, 142 pages, $6.95
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Annie's friend loans them several books, one about Mennonites migrating from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, to Upper Canada (now Ontario) two hundred years ago. The epic story captures their interest. The Petersheims read together and discuss the dangers faced. They identify with the lifestyle, desire for freedom of faith, and need for farms. Bittersweet Journey shows Pennsylvanians making a great effort to help the pioneers save their mortgaged and in the wilds of Canada.

Annie, with her woman's instincts, feels with Beccy Eby Bricker in her trials. Steve, with his preacher's insights, explores spiritual issues in hero Sam Bricker's life. Reading together gives them edifying entertainment.

Book two. Copyright 2003.

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  Horseshoe Knoll
paperback, $6.95
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Dannie and Susie have left their Pennsylvania home to help at their brother's Amish Tennessee farm for the summer. Susie stays in the community and becomes friends with Savilla, on a neighboring farm. Dannie and a childhood friend, Jodie, obtain the approval of their folks to go with Dr Robinson and his wife to work on a Colorado ranch for several weeks. Stallions, sheepdogs, and sheep figure in this drama of the scenic foothills and so do various wild animals, including a cougar. Dannie learns what it takes to be a man, develop character, and take responsibility.

Meanwhile, Susie and Savilla care for the new babies of t heir host families, do farm tasks, take trips to town, and even work for some elderly non-Amish folks. Close-knit Amish family life is nurtured by letters,, phone calls, and the extended family's annual reunion.

Book 3. Copyright 2003 AB Publishing, Inc.

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  Trailblazing in Penn's Woods
paperback, $8.95
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Dannie and Susie Petersheim are keeping the home fires burning at Willowcreeek Valley Farm and reading a book about a young girl who travels on a ship across the stormy ocean to settle in America. She lived briefly in Grosdaudy Hans Herr's house before traveling wetward into Penn's Woods. Indians attack and capture her before she is rescued by a young trapper who becomes her future husband.

Book 4. Copyright 2005 Masthoff Press

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  Home in the Wilderness
paperback, $7.95
Susie has left her Pennsylvania home to help at her brother Steven's Amish Tennessee farm as Steven's wife, Annie, awaits a new baby. While Susie is recovering from an accident, she reads a book about Betsey of Hammer Creek in Lancaster County. A Bachelor in Upper Canada invites Betsey to join a Conestoga wagon caravan going there soon after 1800. In Tennessee, letters, visits, and a reunion of the relatives nurture close-knit family life.

Book 5. Copyright 2006 A.B. Publishing, Inc

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After Steven Petersheim marries Annie Stoltzfoos in Pennsylvania, they move to a rented farm in a young Amish settlement in Tennessee. Follow Steven and Annie Petersheim and their lives on Willowcreek Valley Farm. 

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