Cocoa Ice

Written by Diana Karter Appelbaum · Written and illustrated by Holly Meade

Two girls from different worlds connect through a sailor and a shared love for iced chocolate.

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56 pages· 1030L

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In the late 1800s, a girl in Santo Domingo and her counterpart in Maine live worlds apart, yet share a unique bond. As one harvests cocoa under the tropical sun and the other gathers ice in the frigid north, a sailor's journey links their lives. Through their imaginations and a taste for iced chocolate, they discover unexpected connections. What secrets do their distant lands hold, and how will their stories intertwine? This tale of friendship across oceans invites you to explore the magic of faraway places and the ties that bind us all.

From the publisher

On the island of Santo Domingo, the sun bakes the earth until it is hot and steamy like a roasted plantain. In Maine, cold can have so hard a grip that rivers freeze thick and clear, and ice is a crop that families depend upon for their livelihoods. Back in distant days of high-rigged schooners, what could children from two such very different places ever have in common? The deliciously satisfying answer, presented here with cut-paper pictures of a tropical island of always-summer and a New England village of very long winters, is given in the voices of two girls – linked together by a sailor, a gift for imagining life in faraway places, and a taste for iced chocolate.

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