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Jewell Parker Rhodes - Sugar - 9780316043069 - V9780316043069
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Sugar

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Description for Sugar Paperback.

Ten-year-old Sugar lives on the River Road sugar plantation along the banks of the Mississippi. Slavery is over, but laboring in the fields all day doesn't make her feel very free. Thankfully, Sugar has a knack for finding her own fun, especially when she joins forces with forbidden friend Billy, the white plantation owner's son.

Sugar has always yearned to learn more about the world, and she sees her chance when Chinese workers are brought in to help harvest the cane. The older River Road folks feel threatened, but Sugar is fascinated. As she befriends young Beau and elder ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780316043069
SKU
V9780316043069
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 8 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Jewell Parker Rhodes
Jewell Parker Rhodes is the Piper Endowed Chair and founding artistic director of the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University. She has won numerous awards for her books for children and adults. Ninth Ward, her first novel for young readers, was named a Coretta Scott King Honor Book, a Notable Book for a Global Society, ... Read more

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