The Nation's Choice: Theme Paperbacks on Level Theme 1 Grade 2 the Adventures of Sugar & Junior - Softcover

Houghton Mifflin Company

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0618062033 ISBN 13: 9780618062034

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin School, 2001

Synopsis

Gr. 2^-3, younger for reading aloud. This chapter^-picture book about the interracial friendship between Junior Ramirez and Sugar Johnson has a simple style, repetition, and plenty of dialogue. In the first chapter, African American Sugar tells the amusing tale of how she got her unusual name ("Sugar is not my nickname" ). The watercolor-and-colored-pencil drawings set against crisp, white space show the two new pals in perpetual motion. The remaining vignettes feature a cookie recipe gone bad, a scary monster movie, and the dilemma of choosing ice cream. While there's some predictability here, Medearis has done a fine, understated job of showing what it means to be a friend. - Booklist (Julie Corsaro)

About this title

From School Library Journal

Grade 2-3-In four chapters, Medearis relates the friendship and adventures of Sugar Johnson, a black girl, and Santiago Ramirez, a Hispanic boy known as Junior. The first story is the best as the two new neighbors meet and Sugar relates how she got her name. The other chapters cover cookie baking, a scary movie, and buying ice-cream cones. One of book's strengths is the easy and open friendship between the two children. Poydar introduces each chapter with a large watercolor painting and then sprinkles the text with smaller pictures that capture the expressions and action of the characters. The school-age children, large-print type, easy vocabulary, and chapter format make the book most appropriate for beginning readers, who will relate to the activities and see themselves as Sugar and Junior, meeting new people and making friends as they move beyond the family circle and out into a larger world.
Judith Gloyer, Milwaukee Public Library
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist

Gr. 2^-3, younger for reading aloud. This chapter^-picture book about the interracial friendship between Junior Ramirez and Sugar Johnson has a simple style, repetition, and plenty of dialogue. In the first chapter, African American Sugar tells the amusing tale of how she got her unusual name ("Sugar is not my nickname" ). The watercolor-and-colored-pencil drawings set against crisp, white space show the two new pals in perpetual motion. The remaining vignettes feature a cookie recipe gone bad, a scary monster movie, and the dilemma of choosing ice cream. While there's some predictability here, Medearis has done a fine, understated job of showing what it means to be a friend. Julie Corsaro

Edition details

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin School
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0618062033
• ISBN 13: 9780618062034
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 32