PublisherHachette Book GroupImprintLittle, BrownISBN
9780316043052
Awards and HonorsKirkus Reviews Best Children’s Books of 2013; ALA 2014 Notable Children’s Books, Middle Readers; 2014 Jane Addams Book Award Winner, Older Children; VOYA Top Shelf Fiction for Middle School Readers 2013; William Allen White Children#8217;s Book Awards 2015–2016 Master List
Ten-year-old Sugar, an orphan and former slave, still works in the sugarcane fields, now alongside newly arrived Chinese workers: “I’m free,” she says. “Except from sugar. ” Author’s note. Black-and-white illustrations.
Topics Plantation life. Race relations. Louisiana. Reconstruction (1865-1877). Louisiana history. African Americans. Chinese Americans.
Lexile 430L
Trim Size 5 1/4" x 7 5/8"
JLG Span Spring
Language English
Publication date 2013-05-06
JLG Release Date Aug 2013
Minimum grade 3
Maximum grade 5
Reading level Elementary
Format Print
Intermediate Readers (Grades 3-5)
Intermediate Readers
Intermediate Readers (Grades 3-5)
For Grades 3-5
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