pageprincess398 's review for:

Sugar by Jewell Parker Rhodes

5.0

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This book was so refreshing to read. If you are looking for historical fiction on the time after the civil war and want more than just the perspective of a boy that lost a brother to the Yankees and misses his slaves then this book is for you. Sugar, who initially hates her name, is full of spirit and gumption. She is left as a sharecropper watching everyone else "go north" but her adoptive family feels they are too old to make the trip. New workers from China arrive and instead of keeping separate Sugar makes sure to find a friend among the new Chinese. Scenes in this book, like when Sugar corrects the land owners son, Billy, on what to call the Chinese and when Billy reminds his parents that slavery is over and there are no longer slave quarters provide teachable moments for the reader.