02187cam a2200409 i 4500 623551230 TxAuBib 20160321120000.0 160111s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2015038251 9780399173073 hardback 0399173072 hardback (OCoLC)934627716 DLC DLC eng eng rda rda rda DLC YDXCP rda DLC BTCTA BDX TOH ON8 OCLCQ IK2 ILC BKL OCLCO GZD TJT TxAuBib YDXCP BTCTA BDX TOH ON8 OCLCQ IK2 ILC BKL OCLCO GZD TJT TxAuBib rda Sullivan, Tara, author. The bitter side of sweet / Tara Sullivan. New York, NY : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2016. ©2016. 299 pages : maps ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (page 305). Includes bibliographical references. "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"-- Provided by 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 shes a wild thing. She fights, but the bosses break her. Now the three band together as family and try just once more to escape. 810L Lexile. Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.1 12 179548. 20160321. Slavery Fiction. Child labor Fiction. Chocolate Fiction. Black people Côte d'Ivoire Fiction. Côte d'Ivoire Fiction. Fiction. lcgft TXKPL