What would you do if you were kidnapped from your village in Africa, sent to the American South and sold into slavery? Amari has to take this terrifying journey to South Carolina, where she meets an indentured slave girl, Polly. After months working on the same plantation, the girls run away when the master kills the man his wife was sleeping with and the baby they conceived. Author, Sharon Draper, writes a suspenseful tale of the girls’ path to Fort Mose in Spanish, Florida where they can be free. This book details life during the colonial period and would be a great read for Middle School and High School students studying this time in history. Recipient of the Coretta Scott King Award, this book (Simon Pulse, 2006), shows how slaves were treated and what they were willing to go through to be free.
Want to see what other books Sharon Draper has written? Check out this link!
http://sharondraper.com/bookdetail.asp?id=20
Review of Copper Sunhttp://www.teenreads.com/reviews/0689821816.asp
Book Trailer for Copper Sunhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRhh6B91YJU
Copper Sun Book Trailer. (December, 2009). From You Tube. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRhh6B91YJU
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