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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Publisher Weekly Review     School Library Journal Review     More Content       More by this author     Sullivan, Tara.     Subjects     Slavery -- Fiction.     Child labor -- Fiction.     Chocolate -- Fiction.     Blacks -- Côte d'Ivoire -- Fiction.     Côte d'Ivoire -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Sullivan, Tara.       by title:      The bitter side of s...       by call number:      FICTION SUL     Search the Web     Sullivan, Tara.     Slavery -- Fiction.     Child labor -- Fiction.     Chocolate -- Fiction.     Blacks -- Côte d'Ivoire -- Fiction.     Côte d'Ivoire -- Fiction.       MARC Display

The bitter side of sweet / Tara Sullivan. by Sullivan, Tara. G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2016. Call #: FICTION SUL Subjects Slavery -- Fiction.   Child labor -- Fiction.   Chocolate -- Fiction.   Blacks -- Côte d'Ivoire -- Fiction.   Côte d'Ivoire -- Fiction. ISBN:  9780399173073 (hc.) Description:  299 p. ; 22 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (page 305). Summary:  "Kept as forced labor on a chocolate plantation in the Ivory Coast, Amadou and his younger brother Seydou had given up hope, until a young girl arrives at the camp who rekindles the urge to escape."--From publisher. They only wanted to make some money during the dry season to help their impoverished family; instead they were tricked into forced labor on a plantation in the Ivory Coast. For two years what has mattered are the number of cacao pods Amadou and his younger brother, Seydou, can chop down in a day. Then Khadija comes, the first girl who has ever come to camp, and she's a wild thing. She fights, but the bosses break her. Now the three band together as family and try just once more to escape. Audience:  Grades: 8-up. SLJ. Genre:  Black fiction. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Woodlawn Public Library Young Adult Black Fiction FICTION SUL Ya Books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Central Library Young Adult Black Fiction FICTION SUL Ya Books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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