Sugar

3.5 stars Sugar and her Mama were slaves on a sugarcane plantation in Louisiana. Now slavery has over and Mama is dead but nothing else has changed. Sugar, a ten-year-old girl, works long, hard hours for most of the year planting and harvesting sugarcane. She longs for love and friendship and can't s......more

Sugar is 10, an orphan and although she is not longer a slave, she sure doesn't feel free. She has lived on the River Road plantation where they grow sugar cane in Louisiana her whole life, but she really just wants to go north and see what the world is about. It is 1870 and reconstruction is in full......more

Sugar works the sugar cane fields during the Reconstruction period after the Civil War and yearns for a taste of freedom that she's heard so much about. She, and her fellow cane workers are stunned when the plantation hires Chinese men to work in the fields alongside the African American workers. Wo......more

This book was a beautiful blend of happiness, friendship, unfairness, and despair. Sugar was a very complex character, adventurous, sassy, stubborn and friendly. I felt joyful at most times reading the book, but I also had sympathy for Sugar, as both of her parents are dead when she is only ten. Thi......more

Maybe my favorite book of the year so far! Narrative poetry is my favorite. I buy very few books to keep as friends, but this is going on my wish list.......more