Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science Contributor(s): Aronson, Marc (Author), Budhos, Marina (Author) |
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ISBN: 0618574921 ISBN-13: 9780618574926 Publisher: Clarion Books OUR PRICE: $19.79 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2010 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Young Adult Nonfiction | History - General - Young Adult Nonfiction | Business & Economics - Young Adult Nonfiction | People & Places - Caribbean & Latin America |
Dewey: 664.109 |
LCCN: 2009033579 |
Lexile Measure: 1130 |
Physical Information: 1" H x 8.7" W x 9.6" (1.60 lbs) 176 pages |
Accelerated Reader Info |
Quiz #: 140767 Reading Level: 8.0 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 5.0 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Aronson, Marc: - Marc Aronson is the award-winning author of a wide variety of nonfiction works for younger readers, including Sugar Changed the World and Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado, which received the first Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award. He edits and publishes young adult fiction in a special arrangement with Candlewick and lives with his wife and two sons in Maplewood, New Jersey. Visit him at marcaronson.com.Budhos, Marina: - 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. |