num_pages: 192
description: A novel about friendship and survival, set in the cocoa plantations of West Africa Pascal’s life is like any other local boy’s, until the day rebels come to his village and everything changes. On the run with friends, Pascal finds himself in some tough situations. But it is not until he ends up working in a cocoa plantation that he realizes he must try to find his family and free himself from enslavement.
language: English
title: Bitter Chocolate
publisher: Bloomsbury Children's Books