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3.86 AVERAGE
3.86 AVERAGE
I absolutely loved this book! I can't wait to someday read this to my daughter. It was very light but it also explained serious issues about prejudices in the community and how working together is the only way to get ahead and taking chances. I advise everyone to book and read it with your child at some time. Great book.
I really loved this book and just finished reading it for the second time. I really enjoyed the concept and dignity of the character. I really also liked how her spirit was free like a soaring bird in a snowstorm.
10-year-old Sugar is an orphan on a sugar plantation in Louisiana during Reconstruction. She lives with a group of slaves who stayed on after they were freed, but they work just as hard as if they were still slaves. She's got spirit and makes trouble, and she and the owner's son become friends to the chagrin of everyone around them. When a group of Chinese workers come to the plantation to help with the harvest, Sugar helps to bridge the cultural gap between the two groups. Solid historical fiction about an interesting time in US history. Not as good as Ninth Ward, but still a worthwhile read. Grades 4+
inspiring
medium-paced
One Sentence Review: A problematic unnecessarily cheery view of a moment in history that, taken another way, could have yielded a really fascinating glimpse into a little known incident in our nation's past.
I really loved Sugar. The audio version of this book was amazing! I love how the author explores the use of Chinese immigrant workers in post Civil War time.
Such a great book! I really liked this book and the characters within. I loved the values in the book, like friendship, overcoming diversity, etc. I really enjoyed this book a lot and recommend it.
I picked it up as an audio because Bahni Turpin was narrating. A very good book about the South during the reconstruction, and the precocious title character who is both lovable and flawed. I really enjoyed it, and I think most readers will as well.
This book succeeds on many levels; it entertains and touches the heart, it teaches, it inspires. Sugar is a feisty freed slave who still lives and works on the plantation where her mother passed away. Slavery is no longer legal, but the work remains, and conditions aren't always much better. Sugar forms a forbidden friendship with the plantation owner's son Billy, and acts as a bridge between cultures when the Chinese workers arrive to fill the void created by freed slaves who have headed North after the war. Hand this to any student with an interest in history and spirited characters who create their own destinies, no matter the obstacles before them.