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1 online resource (1 audio file) |
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093000 |
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digital rda |
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audio file rda |
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CD audio |
| Summary |
Fifteen-year-old Amadou counts the things that matter. For two years what has mattered are the number of cacao pods he and his younger brother, Seydou, can chop down in a day. This number is very important. The higher the number the safer they are because the bosses won't beat them. The higher the number the closer they are to paying off their debt and returning home to Moke and Auntie. Maybe. The problem is, Amadou doesn't know how much he and Seydou owe, and the bosses won't tell him. The boys 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. With no hope of escape, all they can do is try their best to stay alive-until Khadija comes into their lives. She's the first girl who's ever come to camp, and she's a wild thing. She fights bravely every day, attempting escape again and again, reminding Amadou what it means to be free. But finally, the bosses break her, and what happens next to the brother he has always tried to protect almost breaks Amadou. The old impulse to run is suddenly awakened. The three band together as family and try just once more to escape. |
| Audience |
810L Lexile |
| Note |
Downloadable audio file. |
| Performer |
Read by J.D. Jackson. |
| Summary |
Working as forced labor on a chocolate plantation in the Ivory Coast, Amadou and his younger brother Seydou have given up hope, until a young girl arrives at the camp who rekindles their urge to escape. |
| System Details |
Requires Boundless App. |
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Slavery -- Fiction.
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Child labor -- Fiction.
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Chocolate -- Fiction.
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Blacks -- Côte d'Ivoire -- Fiction.
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Slavery -- Juvenile fiction.
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Child labor -- Juvenile fiction.
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Chocolate -- Juvenile fiction.
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Blacks -- Côte d'Ivoire -- Juvenile fiction.
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Blacks. |
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Child labor. |
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Chocolate. |
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Slavery. |
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Côte d'Ivoire -- Fiction.
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Côte d'Ivoire. |
| Genre |
Children's audiobooks.
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Audiobooks.
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Fiction.
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Juvenile works.
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| Added Author |
Jackson, JD, narrator.
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| Other Form: |
Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Sullivan, Tara. Bitter side of sweet : a novel [Old Saybrook, Connecticut] : Tantor Audio, [2016] 9781515901136 (NjBwBT)bl2017025641 (OCoLC)937408009 |
| ISBN |
9781515921134 : $49.95 |
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1515921131 : $49.95 |
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