Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science

When this award-winning husband-and-wife team discovered that they each had sugar in their family history, they were...
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Author: Marc Aronson
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Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science by Aronson, Marc

Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science

$51.60

Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science

$51.60
Author: Marc Aronson
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

When this award-winning husband-and-wife team discovered that they each had sugar in their family history, they were inspired to trace the globe-spanning story of the sweet substance and to seek out the voices of those who led bitter sugar lives. The trail ran like a bright band from religious ceremonies in India to Europe's Middle Ages, then on to Columbus, who brought the first cane cuttings to the Americas. Sugar was the substance that drove the bloody slave trade and caused the loss of countless lives but it also planted the seeds of revolution that led to freedom in the American colonies, Haiti, and France. With songs, oral histories, maps, and over 80 archival illustrations, here is the story of how one product allows us to see the grand currents of world history in new ways. Time line, source notes, bibliography, index.



Author: Marc Aronson, Marina Budhos
Publisher: Clarion Books
Published: 11/15/2010
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 9.60h x 8.70w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780618574926
Audience: 12 - UP

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 8
Point Value: 5
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 140767 / Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science


Award: L.A. Times Book Prize - Finalist
Award: Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens - Recommended
Award: Grand Canyon Reader Award - Recommended


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2010
Voice of Youth Advocates 10/01/2010 - Recommended - Better Than Most
School Library Journal 10/01/2010 pg. 130
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 11/01/2010
Booklist 10/15/2010 pg. 43
Kirkus Best Young-Adult Books 11/15/2010 pg. 14
Horn Book Magazine 01/01/2011 pg. 107
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2011 pg. 195
SLJ's Best Books 12/01/2010 pg. 34
Shelf Awareness 01/01/0001

About the Author

Marc Aronson has won many awards and prizes for his books, including the first Sibert Award and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for Eldorado. Marina Budhos is an assistant professor of English at William Paterson University. She is the author of Ask Me No Questions, winner of the inaugural James Cook Teen Book Award. She and her husband live with their two sons in Maplewood, New Jersey.


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