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Sugar, a freed slave, has a hard life in Louisiana. Her mother died and while Sugar is free, she is stuck living in former slave quarters with older former slaves who don't want to move North. When Sugar strikes up a friendship with Billy, the plantation owner's son, she finds out that Chinese workers will be working in the sugar fields too. Sugar is full of energy and wants to meet the Chinese workers. Will Sugar be able to make friends with the new workers? Will she be able to find a better li
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Sugar is a beautiful, sweet story about how friendship and sacrifice can defy the boundaries of race and tradition. The story is set in post-slavery America and shows the struggles that continued for African Americans and Chinese, in the time of share cropping. There are many historical fiction books that are set in slavery times, but this story sheds light on a time not often in books. It clearly demonstrates that the end of slavery did not bring true freedom to non-whites. The characters are l
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- juvenile realistic fiction
- post slavery South
- Sugar's mother has died and her father hasn't returned after being sold to another plantation owner
- age-appropriate scenarios of forbidden friendships, prejudice, racial tension, hope for the future ...more
- post slavery South
- Sugar's mother has died and her father hasn't returned after being sold to another plantation owner
- age-appropriate scenarios of forbidden friendships, prejudice, racial tension, hope for the future ...more
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