Copper sun / Sharon M. Draper.
Author: Draper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills).
Edition: 1st Simon Pulse ed.
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Simon Pulse, 2008.
ISBN: 9781416953487 (pbk.)
1416953485 (pbk.)
Description: 314 p. ; 21 cm.
Subject: Slavery Fiction.
Indentured servants Fiction.
African Americans Fiction.
Indentured servants Fiction.
African Americans History 18th century Fiction.
Slavery Fiction.
South Carolina History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 Fiction.
Florida History Spanish colony, 1565-1763 Fiction.
South Carolina History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 Fiction.
Florida History Spanish colony, 1565-1763 Fiction.
Notes: Originally published: New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2006.
Includes a reading group guide (p. [307]-309).
Coretta Scott King Author Award winner, 2007.
Summary: Two fifteen-year-old girls--one a slave and the other an indentured servant--escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to slaves.
