![]() ![]() Even more so, we hear this story filtered through the naïve and unknowing eyes of young Sugar, which makes it all the more interesting to dissect and read into. ![]() Regardless, I thought it was interesting to read a children’s story set in this time period because I, personally, had never encountered one prior. You wouldn’t know this, however, based on the way these “workers” are treated. Now, with this, she is not a slave – just a worker. This young ten-year-old girl, Sugar, tells us all about her life working on a plantation during the Reconstruction-era. Review: Rhodes told a very unique story here. With her budding friendship between Beau and Master Liu (two of the workers), Sugar realizes it’s up to her to bring everyone together and make the plantation as peaceful as possible. However, Sugar’s way-of-life begins to change when workers from China move to the plantation. All she knows is picking sugar in the field, her family of fellow workers, and her friendship with the plantation owner’s son, Billy. Summary: Sugar has lived on the River Road sugar plantation for her whole life. ![]()
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