The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood New or Used:New as they call him behind

as they call him behind his back

descended from a long line of very scary alligators

With unforgettable characters and colorfully descriptive text

this book engages infants’ minds and developing eyesight with bright colors and high-contrast images

he had never truly seen her face

The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood New or Used:New as they call him behindJournalist Helene Cooper examines the violent past of her home country Liberia and the effects of its 1980 military coup in this deeply personal memoir and finalist for the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award. Helene Cooper is Congo, a descendant of two Liberian dynastiestraced back to the first ship of freemen that set sail from New York in 1820 to found Monrovia. Helene grew up at Sugar Beach, a twenty two room mansion by the sea. Her childhood