9780316043052 | Little Brown & Co, May 7, 2013, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: In 1870 reconstruction brings big changes to the Louisiana sugar plantation where spunky ten year old Sugar has always lived including her friendship with Billy the son of her former master and the arrival of workmen from China Ten year old Sugar lives on the River Road sugar plantation along the banks of the Mississippi Slavery is over but laboring in the fields all day doesn t make her feel very free Thankfully Sugar has a knack for finding her own fun especially when she joins forces with forbidden friend Billy the white plantation owner s son Sugar has always yearned to learn more about the world and she sees her chance when Chinese workers are brought in to help harvest the cane The older River Road folks feel threatened but Sugar is fascinated As she befriends young Beau and elder Master Liu they introduce her to the traditions of their culture and she in turn shares the ways of plantation life Sugar soon realizes that she must be the one to bridge the cultural gap and bring the community together Here is a story of unlikely friendships and how they can change our lives forever From Jewell Parker Rhodes the author of Ninth Ward a Coretta Scott King Honor Book and a Today show Al s Book Club for Kids pick here s another tale of a strong spirited young girl who rises beyond her circumstances and inspires others to work toward a brighter future

9780316043069 | Reprint edition (Little Brown & Co, June 3, 2014), cover price $7.99

9781469273983 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, May 7, 2013), cover price $19.99 | About this edition: For Sugar, life is anything but sweet.

9781469273976 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio, May 7, 2013), cover price $24.99 | About this edition: For Sugar, life is anything but sweet.

9780670014392 | Viking Childrens Books, September 12, 2013, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: The year is 1867, the South has been defeated, and the American Civil War is over.

9780142422373 | Reprint edition (Puffin, June 12, 2014), cover price $8.99

9781416911647 | 1 edition (Simon & Schuster, May 6, 2008), cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Fourteen-year-old Stella, orphaned just after the Civil War, fights to keep her family's plantation and fulfill her father's desire to turn land over to the people who have worked on it for generations, but first she must find her father's hidden deed and will.

9781416986478 | Reprint edition (Simon & Schuster, February 9, 2010), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Stella Reid is fighting to save the home she loves.

9781416974963 | Simon & Schuster, February 9, 2010, cover price $7.99

9780786227044 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, October 1, 2000), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Born with a withered leg and hand, Pascal, who is about twelve years old, joins other former slaves in a search for a farm and the freedom which it promises.

9780689833175 | Aladdin Paperbacks, February 1, 2000, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Born with a withered leg and hand, Pascal, who is about twelve years old, joins other former slaves in a search for a farm and the freedom which it promises

9780689820786 | Atheneum, October 1, 1998, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Born with a withered leg and hand, Pascal, who is about twelve years old, joins other former slaves in a search for a farm and the freedom which it promises

9780606178242 | Demco Media, April 1, 2000, cover price $13.41 | About this edition: Born with a withered leg and hand, Pascal, who is about twelve years old, joins other former slaves in a search for a farm and the freedom which it promises

9781439528129 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, August 11, 2008), cover price $14.99 | also contains Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule | About this edition: Winner of the 1999 Scott O'Dell Award A Notable Children's Book in the Field of Social Studies Maybe nobody gave freedom, and nobody could take it away like they could take away a family farm.

9781928749172 | Zondervan, February 1, 2004, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: Violet Travilla and her large Southern family must adjust to the many changes in their lives brought about by the end of the Civil War.

9781934306017 | Zondervan, October 1, 2007, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Violet Travilla and her large Southern family must adjust to the many changes in their lives brought about by the end of the Civil War.

9781928749868 | Zondervan, July 24, 2006, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Elsie Dinsmore Travilla, who has always tried to live a truly Christian life, returns to Ion Plantation after the Civil War to discover that old hatreds run deep and that she must rely on her faith to withstand the Ku Klux Klan.

9780606309202 | Demco Media, August 30, 2004, cover price $13.55 | About this edition: From 1865 to 1869, freed slaves Ezra--ten years old at the end of the Civil War--and his father deal with their newfound liberty, traveling from their former master's North Carolina plantation to finally settle in a community of free blacks in Charleston, South Carolina, where they gain education and professions.

9780613368674 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 2001, cover price $21.70 | About this edition: When Ezra Taplin, a ten-year-old slave, and his father are set free by Union soldiers, they must learn how to live as free men while struggling to discover the true meaning of freedom.

9780802786364, titled "The Heart Calls Home" | Walker & Co, October 1, 1999, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: After the Civil War, former slave Obi Booker tries to make a new life on a South Carolina island while waiting to be joined by his beloved Easter, who is studying in the North

9780380732944, titled "The Heart Calls Home" | Reprint edition (Trophy Pr, January 1, 2002), cover price $5.95 | About this edition: After fighting as a Union officer in the Civil War, former slave Obi Booker returns to South Carolina to make a new life for himself and his beloved Easter.

9780606244626, titled "The Heart Calls Home" | Demco Media, April 1, 2002, cover price $14.50 | About this edition: After fighting as a Union officer in the Civil War, former slave Obi Booker returns to South Carolina to make a new life for himself and his beloved Easter.

9780613445221 | Turtleback Books, March 1, 1999, cover price $14.50 | About this edition: After fighting as a Union officer in the Civil War, former slave Obi Booker returns to South Carolina to make a new life for himself and his beloved Easter.

9780769634326 | Reprint edition (Brighter Child, April 15, 2004), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: From 1865 to 1869, freed slaves Ezra--ten years old at the end of the Civil War--and his father deal with their newfound liberty, traveling from their former master's North Carolina plantation to finally settle in a community of free blacks in Charleston, South Carolina, where they gain education and professions.

9780606218764, titled "Road to Freedom: A Story of the Reconstruction" | Demco Media, July 1, 2001, cover price $20.79 | About this edition: When Ezra Taplin, a ten-year-old slave, and his father are set free by Union soldiers, they must learn how to live as free men while struggling to discover the true meaning of freedom.