Draper, Sharon M.

Copper sun / Sharon M. Draper. - 1st Simon Pulse ed. - New York, N.Y. : Simon Pulse, 2008, c2006. - 314 p. ; 21 cm.

Includes a reading group guide (p. [307]-309).

Includes bibliographical references (p. [304-306]).

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.

Coretta Scott King Award, 2007.

ISBN: 9781416953487 (pbk.) 1416953485 (pbk.)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Slavery
Indentured servants
African Americans
International Literature
global literature