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In 1870, Reconstruction brings big changes to the Louisiana sugar plantation where spunky ten-year-old Sugar has always lived, including her friendship with Billy, the son of her former master, and the arrival of workmen from China.

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Main Author: Rhodes, Jewell Parker
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Little, Brown, 2013.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Plantation life > Louisiana > Juvenile fiction.
Race relations > Juvenile fiction.
African Americans > Juvenile fiction.
Chinese Americans > Juvenile fiction.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) > Juvenile fiction.
Louisiana > History > 1865-1950 > Juvenile fiction.
Historical fiction. > Juvenile.
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Summary:In 1870, Reconstruction brings big changes to the Louisiana sugar plantation where spunky ten-year-old Sugar has always lived, including her friendship with Billy, the son of her former master, and the arrival of workmen from China.
Physical Description:272 p. ; 20 cm.
ISBN:9780316043052
0316043052
Author Notes:Jewell Parker Rhodes is an award-winning author. Her books include Voodoo Dreams, Magic City, Douglass' Women, Season, Moon, Hurricane, and the children's book, Ninth Ward. She is also the author of the writing guides Free Within Ourselves: Fiction Lessons for Black Authors and The African American Guide to Writing and Publishing Nonfiction.

Her work has been published in Germany, Italy, Canada, Turkey, and the United Kingdom and reproduced in audio and for NPR's "Selected Shorts." Rhodes honors include: the American Book Award, the National Endowment of the Arts Award in Fiction, the Black Caucus of the American Library Award for Literary Excellence, the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award for Outstanding Writing, and two Arizona Book Awards.

Rhodes is the Virginia G. Piper Chair in Creative Writing and Artistic Director of Piper Global Engagement at Arizona State University.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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