Sugar

Resource Information

The work Sugar represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Hamilton-Wenham Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Sugar

Statement of responsibility

Jewell Parker Rhodes

Creator

• Rhodes, Jewell Parker

Author

• Rhodes, Jewell Parker

Subject

• Children -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction
• Chinese Americans -- Fiction
• Chinese Americans -- Juvenile fiction
• Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction
• Culture conflict -- Louisiana -- Juvenile fiction
• Historical fiction
• Historical fiction
• Historical fiction
• Louisiana -- History -- 1865-1950 -- Fiction
• Louisiana -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile fiction
• Mothers and daughters -- Juvenile fiction
• African Americans -- Fiction
• Plantation life -- Louisiana -- Juvenile fiction
• Race awareness -- Juvenile fiction
• Race relations -- Fiction
• Race relations -- Juvenile fiction
• Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Fiction
• Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Juvenile fiction
• Sugar workers -- Louisiana -- Juvenile fiction
• Plantation life -- Louisiana -- Fiction
• African Americans -- Juvenile fiction

Genre

• Juvenile fiction
• Historical fiction
• Fiction

Language

eng

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

Awards note

Jane Addams Book Award, 2014.

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

[Fic]

Index

no index present

Intended audience

• 430L
• Decoding: 5 (very hard)
• Vocabulary: 5 (very hard)
• Sentences: 3 (medium)
• Patterns: 5 (very hard)

Intended audience source

• lexile
• Lexile

Interest level

MG

LC call number

PZ7.R3476235

LC item number

Sug 2013

Literary form

fiction

Reading level

2.9

Study program name

Accelerated Reader

Target audience

pre adolescent