_The Bitter Side of Sweet_ by Tara Sullivan

An eye-opening book about cacao harvest. Your activist and agricultural students will enjoy this book. I didn't have as many quotes that I marked while reading this one, but here they are. I felt like they were the kind of sentences that state things that might make students think. Surprising statements or different ways of thinking. They could easily be applied to many different topics in the classroom.

A different way of thinking-- how do students respond?

Given her height, she's probably a little younger than me, maybe thirteen or fourteen, but she's not as skinny as most of the girls I knew at home. Maybe the drought is over if people have food to spare on girls. p 10 The Bitter Side of Sweet by Tara Sullivan



"You're like the bosses?" he gasps. That had been my first thought too.

"Ayi, Seydou," she says earnestly. "I just grew up in the same country as them, but that does not make me like them." p207  The Bitter Side of Sweet by Tara Sullivan

"Of course we have bigger problems right now," I say. " But don't you see? If we only ever deal with our problems right now, then everything else never gets talked about. Your mama has to write her article so that people find out about this." p287 The Bitter Side of Sweet by Tara Sullivan

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