Zusatztext "Action-packed! multifaceted! character-rich." -- SLJ ! starred review Informationen zum Autor Sharon M. Draper is the New York Times bestselling author of Out of My Mind , Blende d, and Out of My Heart . She's won Coretta Scott King Awards for Copper Sun and Forged by Fire and multiple honors. She's also the recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award honoring her significant and lasting contribution to writing for teens. Sharon taught high school English for twenty-five years and was named National Teacher of the Year. She lives in Florida. Visit her at SharonDraper.com. Klappentext Slave traders invade Armari's African village and she is dragged to a ship bound for the Carolinas. Bought by a plantation owner, Amari befriends a white indentured servant named Polly and struggles to hold on to her memories, in this Coretta Scott King Award-winning novel. Zusammenfassung Copper Sun is the epic story of a young girl torn from her African village, sold into slavery, and stripped of everything she has ever knownexcept hope.

"Action-packed, multifaceted, character-rich."
-- SLJ, starred review

Autorentext

Sharon M. Draper is the New York Times bestselling author of Out of My Mind, Blende**d, and Out of My Heart. She’s won Coretta Scott King Awards for Copper Sun and Forged by Fire and multiple honors. She’s also the recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award honoring her significant and lasting contribution to writing for teens. Sharon taught high school English for twenty-five years and was named National Teacher of the Year. She lives in Florida. Visit her at SharonDraper.com.

Klappentext

Slave traders invade Armari's African village and she is dragged to a ship bound for the Carolinas. Bought by a plantation owner, Amari befriends a white indentured servant named Polly and struggles to hold on to her memories, in this Coretta Scott King Award-winning novel.

Zusammenfassung
Copper Sun is the epic story of a young girl torn from her African village, sold into slavery, and stripped of everything she has ever knownexcept hope.