Bibliograph

Cocoa ice, by Diana Appelbaum ; pictures by Holly Meade

Type

Label

Cocoa ice, by Diana Appelbaum ; pictures by Holly Meade

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Intended audience

Elementary Grade1030, Lexile

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Cocoa ice

Oclc number

36165072

Responsibility statement

by Diana Appelbaum ; pictures by Holly Meade

resource.studyProgramName

Accelerated Reader, 4.7.

Summary

A girl in Santo Domingo tells how cocoa is harvested during the late 1800s while at the same time her counterpart in Maine tells about the harvesting of ice. On the island of Santo Domingo, the sun bakes the earth until it is hot and steamy like a roasted plantain. In Maine, cold can have so hard a grip that rivers freeze thick and clear, and ice is a crop that families depend upon for their livelihoods. Back in distant days of high-rigged schooners, what could children from two such very different places ever have in common? The deliciously satisfying answer, presented here with cut-paper pictures of a tropical island of always-summer and a New England village of very long winters, is given in the voices of two girls -- linked together by a sailor, a gift for imagining life in faraway places, and a taste for iced chocolate

Target audience

primary

Classification

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