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Sugar by Jewell Parker Rhodes
5.0

YA book. Sugar is a 10 year-old ex-slave on the plantation she was born, an orphan, cared for by the elders, also ex-slaves, who are the only ones left to do the work. She befriends the plantation owner’s son Billy and his father brings Chinamen to work the sugar. A sweet, emotional book.

Learn about the post-Civil War south, on the plantations, inter-cultural relations, myths of African Americans and Chinese.