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Sugar (2013)

by Jewell Parker Rhodes(Favorite Author)

3.87 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0316043052 (ISBN13: 9780316043052)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

review 1: I did enjoy this historical fiction book about a young former slave girl in Louisiana in the years of Reconstruction. Sugar doesn't know why her mother named her Sugar because sugar is what her plantation grows and it's a hard, hard crop on its workers. I, too, did not realize that Chinese workers were imported to the Deep South to work after the Civil War and my biggest quibble about this book is the relationship between Sugar and her former Master's young son and the Chinese workers. It ends up being a great relationship and I just question how realistic something like that would have been. Nevertheless it made the book fun to read.
review 2: Better than I was anticipated. I was afraid it would be another plantation/slave book. I was pleasantly surprise... mored by the plot and characters. I am not wanting to know more about the introduction of workers from China to the South after the Civil War. This was an interesting turn in the plot. I like the main character also. She was a good strong female role model. Not perfect, but that was what made her such a good character. (after civil war, sugar cane, migrant workers, china) less

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