“When husband-and-wife team Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos realized that both their family histories involved the sugar industry, they took it as a challenge...The story builds on what many young scholars already know and adds many details. For example, slavery in the United States is a typical school lesson, but the authors disclose that the other 96 percent of enslaved Africans worked in the sugar industry in other parts of the world.”

1. -2010 Best for Teens: Sugar Changed the World, by Marc Aronson & Marina Budhos
   

Google Lit Trips is proud to have had the authors of Sugar Changed the World participate in the development of this Google Lit Trip.

About the Contributors...

Marc Aronson is the author of many innovative non-fiction books for young people, including the Sibert-medal-winning Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado and Witch-Hunt, Mysteries of the Salem Witch Trials. He is on the faculty of the graduate school of communications and information at Rutgers, and holds a Ph.D. in American History from NYU. See marcaronson.com, memorytrail.us and sugarchangedtheworld.com, for his recent books and projects.

Marina Budhos is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing and English at William Paterson University. She has published both fiction and nonfiction for adults and teenagers, including the award-winning Ask Me No Questions, and most recently, Tell Us We're Home.

Jerome Burg is the founder of the Google Lit Trips project. He taught high school English for 38 years. His work with Google Lit Trips has earned him international recognition including being a co-recipient of the 2008 Goldman Sachs Foundation Prize for Excellence in International Education and being named a 2010 Laureate for the Microsoft Education Award for Technology Benefitting Humanity awarded by the Tech Awards presented by The Tech Museum of Innovation.