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Draper Sharon M.
Copper Sun
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Description: A Time Best Y a Book of All Time (2021) In this searing work of historical fiction (Booklist) Coretta Scott King Award - winning author Sharon M. Draper tells the epic story of a young girl torn from her African village sold into slavery and stripped of everything she has ever known except hope. Amari's life was once perfect. Engaged to the handsomest man in her tribe adored by her family and fortunate enough to live in a beautiful village it never occurred to her that it could all be taken away in an instant. But that was what happened when her village was invaded by slave traders. Her family was brutally murdered as she was dragged away to a slave ship and sent to be sold in the Carolinas. There she was bought by a plantation owner and given to his son as a "birthday present". Now survival is all Amari can dream about. As she struggles to hold on to her memories she also begins to learn English and make friends with a white indentured servant named Molly. When an opportunity to escape presents itself Amari and Molly seize it fleeing South to the Spanish colony in Florida at Fort Mose. Along the way their strength is tested like never before as they struggle against hunger cold wild animals hurricanes and people eager to turn them in for reward money. The hope of a new life is all that keeps them going but Florida feels so far away and sometimes Amari wonders how far hopes and dreams can really take her.
Title: Copper Sun
Author(s): Draper Sharon M.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Barcode: 9781416953487
Pages: 336 Pages, F-C Cvr
Publication Date: 1/1/2008
Category: Historical Fiction (Children's / Teenage)
Description: A Time Best Y a Book of All Time (2021) In this searing work of historical fiction (Booklist) Coretta Scott King Award - winning author Sharon M. Draper tells the epic story of a young girl torn from her African village sold into slavery and stripped of everything she has ever known except hope. Amari's life was once perfect. Engaged to the handsomest man in her tribe adored by her family and fortunate enough to live in a beautiful village it never occurred to her that it could all be taken away in an instant. But that was what happened when her village was invaded by slave traders. Her family was brutally murdered as she was dragged away to a slave ship and sent to be sold in the Carolinas. There she was bought by a plantation owner and given to his son as a "birthday present". Now survival is all Amari can dream about. As she struggles to hold on to her memories she also begins to learn English and make friends with a white indentured servant named Molly. When an opportunity to escape presents itself Amari and Molly seize it fleeing South to the Spanish colony in Florida at Fort Mose. Along the way their strength is tested like never before as they struggle against hunger cold wild animals hurricanes and people eager to turn them in for reward money. The hope of a new life is all that keeps them going but Florida feels so far away and sometimes Amari wonders how far hopes and dreams can really take her.
Title: Copper Sun
Author(s): Draper Sharon M.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Barcode: 9781416953487
Pages: 336 Pages, F-C Cvr
Publication Date: 1/1/2008
Category: Historical Fiction (Children's / Teenage)