by Sharon M. Draper · Atheneum Books for Young Readers · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781416953487
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«Copper Sun» is the young adult historical novel by Sharon M. Draper, published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers in paperback (336 pages, in English).
Amari, a teenager from an African village, watches slave traders destroy her settlement and sell her in the Carolinas. On the rice plantation, her friendship with a white servant and the hope of escaping to the Spanish colony of Florida, where slaves found refuge, sustain her fight for freedom.
Winner of the Coretta Scott King Award, in a reprinted edition. Sharon M. Draper is a New York Times bestselling author and has received the Margaret A. Edwards Award.
Recommended for young people aged 14 and up and for readers of historical and social fiction about slavery in the United States.
Sharon Mills Draper is an American children's writer, professional educator, and the 1997 National Teacher of the Year. She is a two-time winner of the Coretta Scott King Award for books about the young and adolescent African-American experience. She is known for her Hazelwood and Jericho series, Copper Sun, Double Dutch, Out of My Mind and Romiette and Julio.
