Marina Tamar Budhos
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
The lives of fourteen-year-old Nadira, her sister, and their parents are radically changed following the events of September 11, 2001, when being Muslim means being a suspected terrorist and their expired visas result in the arrest of Nadira's father when the family flees New York City for Canada.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Sugar has left a bloody trail through human history. Cane--not cotton or tobacco--drove the bloody Atlantic slave trade and took the lives of countless Africans who toiled on vast sugar plantations under cruel overseers. And yet the very popularity of sugar gave abolitionists in England the one tool that could finally end the slave trade. This book traces the history of sugar from its origins in New Guinea around 7000 B.C. to its use in the 21st century...