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For Sugar, life is anything but sweet.

Ten-year-old Sugar lives on River Road Plantation along the banks of the Mississippi River. Slavery is over, but working in the sugarcane fields all day doesn’t make her feel very free. Thankfully, Sugar knows how to make her own fun, telling stories, climbing trees, and playing with forbidden friend Billy, the plantation owner’s son. Then a group of Chinese workers arrives to help harvest the cane. Sugar wants to know everything about them - she loves the way they dress, their unfamiliar language, and, best of all, the stories they tell of dragons and emperors.

MISSY AND THE SUGAR COOKIES is a story of a young girl who only wants to do one thing, make sugar cookies. Missy is angry and she wants to be left alone. Her anticipated day of making sugar cookies turns quickly into an unexpected disaster. Why does she have to go outside during a snowstorm with her father and sister? And why are they walking towards a big, scary house? Missy thinks to herself, “Surely we are not going there!”