Help me find this book?

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This has been playing on my mind all night.
I was talking to a friend about a book I read as a teen called Underground to Canada and it reminded me of another book I read around the same time.
All I remember is the protagonist is a young black girl in early 1900s. Her father owns land next to a white man who wants it (Mr Ridley or setting?).
Anyways, during the book the girl and her siblings walk miles to school down a dirt track and the school bus for white children drives past them and splashes them.
At some point there is a fire on the families land and I think the KKK are involved.

I remember this book having a big impact on me as an early teen and I'd love to find it again. Does this ring any bells with anyone?

Comes up instantly on a google search. Barbara Smucker?

Afraid I can’t help you, but it’s interesting that the thing you remember is the bit about the school children getting splashed by the school bus. The double (triple, quadruple etc) injustice must have struck you as a young teen. YA writing is quite difficult, I think. It can be difficult to capture realistically, without a sledgehammer, that moment where innocence is shattered and incredulity is replaced with knowledge of pain.

No that is underground to Canada. I just read this one around the same time I read that.

Yeah it always bothered me that bit. There was something about the school as well, all the children from all year groups in the same room. Just always remember that.

Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry - maybe?

That's it!!! You are my hero, thank you!!

No probs!