Download or read book The Sugar Girls written by Duncan Barrett and published by Charnwood. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years leading up to and after the Second World War thousands of women left school at fourteen to work in the bustling factories of London¡s East End. Through the Blitz and on through the years of rationing the 'Sugar Girls' kept Britain sweet. The work was back-breakingly hard, but Tate & Lyle was more than just a factory: it was a community, a calling, a place of love and support and an uproarious, tribal part of the East End. From young Ethel to love-worn Lilian, irrepressible Gladys to Miss Smith who tries to keep a workforce of flirtatious young men and women on the straight and narrow, this is an evocative, moving story of hunger, hardship and happiness.
Download or read book Sugar written by Jewell Parker Rhodes and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Jewell Parker Rhodes, the author of Towers Falling and Ninth Ward (a Coretta Scott King Honor Book and a Today show Al's Book Club for Kids pick) comes a tale of a strong, spirited young girl who rises beyond her circumstances and inspires others to work toward a brighter future. Ten-year-old Sugar lives on the River Road sugar plantation along the banks of the Mississippi. Slavery is over, but laboring in the fields all day doesn't make her feel very free. Thankfully, Sugar has a knack for finding her own fun, especially when she joins forces with forbidden friend Billy, the white plantation owner's son. Sugar has always yearned to learn more about the world, and she sees her chance when Chinese workers are brought in to help harvest the cane. The older River Road folks feel threatened, but Sugar is fascinated. As she befriends young Beau and elder Master Liu, they introduce her to the traditions of their culture, and she, in turn, shares the ways of plantation life. Sugar soon realizes that she must be the one to bridge the cultural gap and bring the community together. Here is a story of unlikely friendships and how they can change our lives forever.
Download or read book Sugar Girls Seamen written by Henry Trotter and published by Jacana Media. This book was released on 2008 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sugar Girls & Seamen illuminates the shadowy world of dockside prostitution in South Africa, focusing on the women of Cape Town and Durban who sell their hospitality to foreign sailors. Dockside "sugar girls" work at one of the busiest cultural intersections in the world. Through their continual interactions with foreign seamen, they become major traffickers in culture, ideas, languages, styles, goods, currencies, genes and diseases. Many learn the seamen's tongues, develop emotional relationships with them, have their babies and become entangled in vast webs of connection. In many ways, these South African mermaids are the ultimate cosmopolitans, the unsung sirens of globalisation. Based on fifteen months of research at the seamen's nightclubs, plus countless interviews with sugar girls, sailors, club owners, cabbies, bouncers and barmaids, this book provides a comprehensive account of dockside "romance" at the southern tip of Africa. Through stories, analysis and first-hand experiences, it reveals this gritty world in all its raw vitality and fragile humanity. Sugar Girls & Seamen is simultaneously racy and light, critical and profound.
Download or read book Build a Book for Girls written by Holly Brook-Piper and published by little bee books. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's BUILD A BOOK FOR GIRLS, an exciting activity journal designed to develop a love of writing and encourage creativity! In BUILD A BOOK FOR GIRLS, kids are presented with a new and exciting activity journal. This book is designed to develop a love of writing while encouraging creativity. While completing the activities, girls will be honing the skills they need to build their own book—without even realizing it! With an ever increasing emphasis on creative writing, this book gives girls a head-start into exploring their imaginations in a structured, positive way.
Download or read book What Girls Are Made Of written by Elana K. Arnold and published by Carolrhoda Lab ®. This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2017 National Book Award for Young People's Literature Finalist When Nina Faye was fourteen, her mother told her there was no such thing as unconditional love. Nina believed her. Now she'll do anything for the boy she loves, to prove she's worthy of him. But when he breaks up with her, Nina is lost. What is she if not a girlfriend? What is she made of? Broken-hearted, Nina tries to figure out what the conditions of love are. "Finally, finally, a book that is fully girl, with all of the gore and grace of growing up female exposed." —Carrie Mesrobian, author of the William C. Morris finalist, Sex & Violence
Download or read book Sugar Girl written by Emma L. McGeown and published by . This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After countless heartbreaks, Ciara Reilly has sworn off falling in love and turned her youth, beauty, and unlucky streak of dead-end relationships into a way to make money. After joining the Sugar Girl app, she has climbed the ranks to become one of the few Platinum Girls in Dublin and now has her choice of dates with wealthy executive clients--complete with the designer clothes and sparkling diamonds she sells to pay her family's astronomical medical debt. The financial perks coupled with the casual dating arrangements suit her, but she learned the hard way that falling in love and sugaring do not mix. When she meets the stunning and wildly fascinating entrepreneur Charlie Keller, she ignores the way her heart pounds. Charlie is everything Ciara has ever wanted, but falling for her means giving upeverything she already has. Forced to choose between coming clean about her lucrative career or losing Charlie forever, will Ciara go sugar-free? Or will the secrets Charlie is keeping from her result in another heartbreak?
Download or read book Sugar and Spice and No Longer Nice written by Deborah Prothrow-Stith and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2005-05-06 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sugar and Spice and No Longer Nice is a groundbreaking book that offers parents and teachers a primer for understanding and preventing the increasing incidents of physical violence--hazing, brutality, fighting, weapons, murder--by young girls. Written by Drs. Deborah Prothrow-Stith and Howard R. Spivak—the renowned Harvard- and Tufts-based experts on preventing youth violence—this important book offers a plan to help our daughters become strong, confident, powerful, and independent young women without being violent.
Download or read book The Sugar Girls of Love Lane written by Duncan Barrett and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-04-25 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Sugar Girls of Love Lane, Duncan Barrett and Nuala Calvi, the authors of the Sunday Times bestseller The Sugar Girls, tell the remarkable stories of those who worked at the famous Tate & Lyle factory in Liverpool. For over a hundred years until it closed in 1981, Henry Tate’s flagship sugar refinery at Love Lane dominated the Liverpool skyline – and was the beating heart of the local community. More than 10,000 workers passed through the doors of the factory during its lifetime, with some families counting four or even five generations of service. Young women leaving school in the post-war years were drawn by the good wages and the unrivalled social life that Tate & Lyle offered. When they arrived, they started at the very bottom, sweeping sugar off the floors, before graduating to packing and weighing by hand. The work was tough, with girls expected to stack heavy bags of sugar onto pallets five feet high, and by the end of the day their arms were aching and their stockings full of sugar dust. But, despite the hot, heavy work, they found their own ways of having fun, and the friendships they formed would last a lifetime. As well as the female friendships, many women met their future husbands at the factory, and expected their own children to follow in their footsteps. Barrett and Calvi's social history of the post-war era casts a warm and nostalgic look back at one of the most iconic factories in the north, bringing back a vanished era of hard work, community spirit and simple pleasures.
Download or read book Sugar and Spice written by Sue Lees and published by Penguin Mass Market. This book was released on 1993 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most studies of adolescence ignore gender, yet growing up is a quite different experience for girls and boys. Girls must deal with contradictory messages about their feminine identity. This book examines how girls address the contradictions of women's conflicting roles.
Download or read book The Sugar Girls Joan s Story Tales of Hardship Love and Happiness in Tate Lyle s East End written by Duncan Barrett and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Joan’s story, one of four stories from The Sugar Girls.During the Blitz and the years of rationing, the Sugar Girls kept Britain sweet. The work was back-breakingly hard, but the Tate & Lyle factory was more than just a workplace - it was a community, a calling, a place of love and support and an uproarious, tribal part of East London.
Download or read book GI Brides written by Duncan Barrett and published by William Morrow Paperbacks. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For readers enchanted by the bestsellers The Astronaut Wives Club, The Girls of Atomic City, and Summer at Tiffany’s, an absorbing tale of romance and resilience—the true story of four British women who crossed the Atlantic for love, coming to America at the end of World War II to make a new life with the American servicemen they married. The “friendly invasion” of Britain by over a million American G.I.s bewitched a generation of young women deprived of male company during the Second World War. With their exotic accents, smart uniforms, and aura of Hollywood glamour, the G.I.s easily conquered their hearts, leaving British boys fighting abroad green with envy. But for girls like Sylvia, Margaret, Gwendolyn, and even the skeptical Rae, American soldiers offered something even more tantalizing than chocolate, chewing gum, and nylon stockings: an escape route from Blitz-ravaged Britain, an opportunity for a new life in affluent, modern America. Through the stories of these four women, G.I. Brides illuminates the experiences of war brides who found themselves in a foreign culture thousands of miles away from family and friends, with men they hardly knew. Some struggled with the isolation of life in rural America, or found their soldier less than heroic in civilian life. But most persevered, determined to turn their wartime romance into a lifelong love affair, and prove to those back home that a Hollywood ending of their own was possible. G.I. Brides includes an eight-pages insert that features 45-black-and-white photos.
Download or read book The Sugar Girls Tales of Hardship Love and Happiness in Tate Lyle s East End written by Duncan Barrett and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle’s East End Factories. The Sugar Girls went straight to No.10 in the Sunday Times Bestseller List, spending five weeks in the top ten.
Download or read book The Sugar Girls Ethel s Story Tales of Hardship Love and Happiness in Tate Lyle s East End written by Duncan Barrett and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Blitz, the Sugar Girls kept Britain sweet. The work was back-breakingly hard, but the Tate & Lyle factory was more than just a workplace - it was a community, a calling, a place of love and support and an uproarious, tribal part of East London. This is Ethel’s story, one of four stories from The Sugar Girls.
Download or read book The Sugar Girls Lilian s Story Tales of Hardship Love and Happiness in Tate Lyle s East End written by Duncan Barrett and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Lilian’s story, one of four stories from The Sugar Girls. During the Blitz and the years of rationing, the Sugar Girls kept Britain sweet. The work was back-breakingly hard, but the Tate & Lyle factory was more than just a workplace - it was a community, a calling, a place of love and support and an uproarious, tribal part of East London.
Download or read book The Sugar Girls Gladys s Story Tales of Hardship Love and Happiness in Tate Lyle s East End written by Duncan Barrett and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Gladys’s story, one of four stories from The Sugar Girls. During the Blitz and the years of rationing, the Sugar Girls kept Britain sweet. The work was back-breakingly hard, but the Tate & Lyle factory was more than just a workplace - it was a community, a calling, a place of love and support and an uproarious, tribal part of East London.
Download or read book Wartime for the Sugar Girls Extraordinary Stories from the Fearless Women Who Brought Hope to a Nation at War written by Duncan Barrett and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2020-04-10 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle’s London factories. The Sugar Girls went straight to number ten in the Sunday Times Bestseller List in the UK on publication, spending five weeks in the top ten.
Download or read book The Sugar Girls of Love Lane written by Duncan Barrett and published by . This book was released on 2024-04-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Sugar Girls of Love Lane, Duncan Barrett and Nuala Calvi, the authors of the Sunday Times bestseller The Sugar Girls, tell the remarkable stories of those who worked at the famous Tate & Lyle factory in Liverpool. For over a hundred years until it closed in 1981, Henry Tate's flagship sugar refinery at Love Lane dominated the Liverpool skyline - and was the beating heart of the local community. More than 10,000 workers passed through the doors of the factory during its lifetime, with some families counting four or even five generations of service. Young women leaving school in the post-war years were drawn by the good wages and the unrivalled social life that Tate & Lyle offered. When they arrived, they started at the very bottom, sweeping sugar off the floors, before graduating to packing and weighing by hand. The work was tough, with girls expected to stack heavy bags of sugar onto pallets five feet high, and by the end of the day their arms were aching and their stockings full of sugar dust. But, despite the hot, heavy work, they found their own ways of having fun, and the friendships they formed would last a lifetime. As well as the female friendships, many women met their future husbands at the factory, and expected their own children to follow in their footsteps. Barrett and Calvi's social history of the post-war era casts a warm and nostalgic look back at one of the most iconic factories in the north, bringing back a vanished era of hard work, community spirit and simple pleasures.
