num_pages: 302
description: Stolen from her village, sold to the highest bidder, fifteen-year-old Amari has only one thing left of her own: hope.  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 elusive dream of freedom sustain Amari and Polly on their arduous journey, fraught with hardship and danger?
language: English
title: Copper Sun
titlecomplete: Copper Sun
genres: Historical, Historical Fiction, Africa, School, Young Adult, Young Adult Historical Fiction, Teen, African American, Fiction, Survival
ratings_count: 15495
places: Florida, The United States of America, Ghana, South Carolina
awards: awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: South Carolina Book Award
category: Young Adult, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Coretta Scott King Book Award
category: Author, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Society of Midland Authors Award
category: Children's Fiction, awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Gateway Readers Award, awardedAt: 1420099200000
name: Margaret A. Edwards Award
publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers