i would defanetly suggest this book 4 read alouds or if you just want to enjoy a book. i normaly HATE realistic fic, but i looooooove this book. it is just a little sad so prob read with a parent!
Copper Sun
By Sharon M. Draper
Interest Level | Reading Level | Reading A-Z | ATOS | Word Count |
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Grades 9 - 12 | Grades 3 - 6 | n/a | 5.2 | 70243 |
Beaten, branded, and dragged onto a slave ship, Amari is forced to witness horrors worse than any nightmare and endure humiliations she had never thought possible -- including being sold to a plantation owner in the Carolinas who gives her to his sixteen-year-old son, Clay, as his birthday present.
Now, survival and escape are all Amari dreams about. As she struggles to hold on to her memories in the face of backbreaking plantation work and daily degradation at the hands of Clay, she finds friendship in unexpected places. Polly, an outspoken indentured white girl, proves not to be as hateful as she'd first seemed upon Amari's arrival, and the plantation owner's wife, despite her trappings of luxury and demons of her own, is kind to Amari. But these small comforts can't relieve Amari's feelings of hopelessness and despair, and when an opportunity to escape presents itself, Amari and Polly decide to work together to find the thing they both want most...freedom.
Grand and sweeping in scope, detailed and penetrating in its look at the complicated interrelationships of those who live together on a plantation, Copper Sun is an unflinching and unforgettable look at the African slave trade and slavery in America.
Book Reviews (5)
This sounds like a must read for me. I love historical fiction books. they r like the only books i read. Going to check this book out at the library
Copper Sun is one of my favorite novels. From the story line to the character building. You feel what the characters feel. I also really enjoy how it has two points of view. The indentured servant and the slave. It is a sad realization of history and humanity. But i highly recommend it.
Copper Sun was a really interesting book. It was talking about slavery, through two different perspectives. One was a young slave girl, and another was an american indentured servant. It was kind of sad, though, and really conveyed deep meaning.
This is a book that is very heart braking . You may want to read it over and over again . But it is a pretty long book. Some one should make a movie or even a play of it . There should also be a day for kids who's lives have changed like hers . So make sure you are thankful that you can talk ,walk, write or even take your self to the bathroom. Tanjii