About this title: 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.
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Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
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Publisher: Atheneum
Date Published: 2006
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781416953487ISBN:1416953485
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Description: Acceptable. Book is in good reading condition. Cover has wear at edges and corners, and may have creases. Spine has wear at edges and may have creases. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atheneum Books
Date Published: 2006
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Description: Very Good. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 302 p. Intended for a juvenile audience. Intended for a young adult/teenage audience. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atheneum Books
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780689821813ISBN:0689821816
Description: Good. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 302 p. Intended for a juvenile audience. Intended for a young adult/teenage audience. read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atheneum
Date Published: 1/3/2006
ISBN-13:9780689821813ISBN:0689821816
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781416953487ISBN:1416953485
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Date Published: 2008-01-01
ISBN-13:9781416953487ISBN:1416953485
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atheneum, New York
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780689821813ISBN:0689821816
Description: NEW in NEW jacket. 1st Edition 1st printing, hardcover with dust jacket, NEW, no marks or blemishes, binding tight, dust jacket (not price-clipped) is bright and glossy. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atheneum Books
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780689821813ISBN:0689821816
Description: New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 302 p. Intended for a juvenile audience. Intended for a young adult/teenage audience. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atheneum
Date Published: 2006-01-10
ISBN-13:9780689821813ISBN:0689821816
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atheneum
Date Published: 2006
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atheneum
Date Published: 1/3/2006
ISBN-13:9780689821813ISBN:0689821816
Description: Fine. 0689821816 2006 Atheneum Books, 1st Printing. Brand New. This clean hardcover copy (in a new dustjacket) is in excellent condition. The text is unmarked and the binding is sturdy. 100% satisfaction guaranteed. Ships promptly. read more
Edition: First
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atheneum Books, New York
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780689821813ISBN:0689821816
Description: Fine in good dust jacket. Jacket has a tear on the backside, but is intact. Front has the original Coretta Scott King Award sticker. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Thorndike Pr
Date Published: 2006-09-20
ISBN-13:9780786289486ISBN:0786289481
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Description: Very good. Ex-Public Library. Book on tape. Narrated by Myra Lucretia Taylor. Tapes play fine. Usual library stickers and stamps. Save a tree-buy used.. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atheneum, New York
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780689821813ISBN:0689821816
Description: Fine in Near Fine jacket. Octavo 6" x 9" Signed by the Author. [CH]. 302 pp. Hardcover, bound in printed wraps. Light shelf-wear. read more
"Historical fiction is tough to write, it is probably even more challenging to write with the young adult in mind. An author has to try to keep the story compelling while pacifying the fact checkers and history police. Sharon Draper seems to have focused less on the latter and more on crafting a fast-paced, interesting narrative. I guess when your audience is primarily youth this is probably a wiser and more lucrative decision.
The pace of Copper Sun is nonstop. The narrative never has a change to drag because it is constantly moving forward, rarely giving the reader any down time. It easy to see the appeal many young people might have for the book. However the novel is far from perfect and suffers because of Draper's decision to always keep things exciting. For example, the slaves seem to undergo every scenario imaginable or ever linked with slavery (no matter how plausible), the dialog (especially for the whites) is extremely forced, heavy handed and unnatural, characters are usually flat with little or no grey area, and the escape/journey seems a bit far-fetched. However, the story is an interesting one, even if a bit exaggerated, and could serve as a good starting point for the studying/discussion of slavery."
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 illusive dream of freedom sustain Amari and Polly on their arduous journey, fraught with hardship and danger?
I really like Sharon Draper's YA collection for the most part, specifically the Hazelwood High series but I found this book more difficult to sift through. She took almost ten years to write it and it is one of the most popular books she has written. I found it to drag on in certain areas that I wanted to go faster. The story of Amari made my heart hurt which was probably the goal but some of the things were on the graphic side, pushing the envelope on YA but still bothered my core. If you like historical fiction this really might be a great option for you. This would also be excellent to read in conjunction with a African-American history course."
"Copper Sun is one of the best books that I've ever read. Amari is a teenege girl whos village was captured into slavery. By the "pail-faces". Her entire family is killed except for her soon to be husband, Besa. But soon they are split apart at the auction. Amari knows that she will probably never see him again. Mr. Derby a slave master was the highest bider for Amari, and bought her for his son's 16th birthday gift. (as if she's a toy) He would rape her every night the first few weeks she was there. Polly an indentured servant from Beufort works for Mr. Derby also. Both of her parents long time ago died from being sick. Now Mr. Derby isn't letting her work in the house instead she's technically doing slaves work. Her and Amari have to share a hut. Polly doesn't no how its going to work out. At the end Mr. Derby finds out that his wife Isabelle, who was preganant, isn't preganant with his baby. It's actually her bodyguard's baby, Noah. He is also a slave. Polly, Amari, Teenie who works in the kitchen, and other slaves try to hide it but later that night Mr. Derby finds out. He ends up killing both Noah and the mewborn. in front of everybody, including the docter. Mr. Derby decides to sell Polly, Amari, and Teenie's baby, Tidbit, to someone else so the docter is supposed to take the three to the auction but he is an abolishonist. Which means he doesn't believe in slavery. Amari, Polly, and Tidbit are put in another journey. A journey to freedom. They end up running away to a Spanish colony, what we now today know as Florida. What I've learned from the book is that you can go through any hardship in world, but if you still have hope you can still get somewhere. And the three kept their hope which lead them to freedom."
"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 doesn't give gory details. The descriptions of her emotional pain and humiliation after are enough. One thing I really liked about this was that Draper gives a balanced perspective. She shows how other tribes were involved in selling out Africans (they saw each other as members of different tribes, not as brother Africans), reveals whites who are conflicted, and shows that white women and poor whites were were victims of the system as well. Overall, I thought this was amazing and if I teach American Literature again, it will definitely become part of my "canon.""
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