Copper Sun Hardcover | Pages: 302 pages

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Original Title:	Copper Sun
ISBN:	0689821816 (ISBN13: 9780689821813)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Ghana United States of America Florida(United States) …more South Carolina(United States) …less
Literary Awards:	South Carolina Book Award Nominee for Young Adult (2009), Coretta Scott King Book Award for Author (2007), Society of Midland Authors Award Nominee for Children's Fiction (2007), Missouri Gateway Readers Award Nominee (2009)

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Stolen from her village, sold to the highest bidder,
fifteen-year-old Amari has only one thing left of her own: hope.

Amari's life was once perfect. Engaged to the handsomest man in her tribe, adored by her family, and living in a beautiful village, she could not have imagined everything could be taken away from her in an instant. But when slave traders invade her village and brutally murder her entire family, Amari finds herself dragged away to a slave ship headed to the Carolinas, where she is bought by a plantation owner and given to his son as a birthday present.

Survival seems all that Amari can hope for. But then an act of unimaginable cruelty provides her with an opportunity to escape, and with an indentured servant named Polly she flees to Fort Mose, Florida, in search of sanctuary at the Spanish colony. Can the elusive dream of freedom sustain Amari and Polly on their arduous journey, fraught with hardship and danger?

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Title	:	Copper Sun
Author	:	Sharon M. Draper
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 302 pages
Published	:	September 20th 2006 by Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Young Adult. Fiction. Cultural. African American

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I attended Draper's session at the International Reading Association National Convention last week. She mentioned that Copper Sun is being taught in conjuction with Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, which I have used with sophomores in World Literature, so I was intrigued. The book follows Amari as slave traders destroy her home, she survives the trip over on the slave ship, and how she manages to survive as a slave in the US in the 1700s. It refers to her constant rape by white men, though it

The copper sun was amazing. It's historical fiction and every part felt so real. I love how Sharon shared the research she did to wrote the book and all the resources she utilized. I plan to get this book for my nephews. This would be a good educational tool for then to begin learning about slavery. This was such a powerful book.

This book...just whoa. For it to be YA, it really blew my mind on how much great historical info that it had packed into it. I read almost the last half of this book in one setting. It got to a point where I just couldn't stop reading. This had not been out in a while in our library, but I'm definitely going to suggest it to people when they are looking for a good historical fiction read.

There are few books I recommend without hesitation, and this is one them. For years, Gary Paulsen's Night John has been one of the titles I try to lead all high school students to. I think Copper Sun is better. As others have mentioned, it isn't a pleasant read at times, but it is absolutely honest in its rendition of a slice of American history. I hope many people, teens and adults, will read it and consider how the past isn't dead; we all live within its long shadow.



this book is very sad,sad,sad in the beginning,but the end is very spirit lifting,with a little bit of a twist.

Sometimes I just stand back and wonder how humanity can be so cruel. Really, the things humans do to each other are revolting. Rape, murder, abuse, an ongoing list that only seems to grow as time goes on. It's the reason I can't watch the news ever. There are just too many bad things happening on this planet, and I don't need to hear about every single one of them. Of course, such a thing was unavoidable while reading the Copper Sun. My first reaction to the novel was horror. I was horrified by