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February 2000

  • Sugar (Sugar Lacey, #1)by Bernice L. McFadden
    4.59 avg ratings, 30 reviewspublished February 1, 2000

    The novel opens when a young prostitute comes to Bigelow, Arkansas, to start over, far from her haunting past. Sugar moves next door to Pearl, who is still grieving for the daughter who was murdered fifteen years before. Over sweet-potato pie, an unlikely friendship begins, trans...

  • Just Another Hero (Jericho, #3)by Sharon M. Draper
    4.0 avg ratings, 1 reviewpublished February 29, 2000

    Jericho, November, Arielle, and their friends must step up big time to prevent a deadly school tragedy in this harrowing conclusion to Sharon M. Draper’s Jericho Trilogy. Arielle Gresham, disliked and mistrusted by most of the students at her school, has a secret past, an unbelie...