description: 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.
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: Simon and Schuster