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Copper sun / Sharon M. Draper.
Van Pelt Library PZ7.D78325 Cop 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Draper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills)
- Series:
- Tayshas high school reading list, 2007-2008.
- Tayshas high school reading list, 2007-2008
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indentured servants--Juvenile fiction.
- Indentured servants.
- African Americans--Juvenile fiction.
- African Americans.
- South Carolina--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Juvenile fiction.
- South Carolina.
- Florida--History--Spanish colony, 1565-1763--Juvenile fiction.
- Florida.
- Slavery--Fiction.
- Teenage slaves--Fiction.
- Interracial friendship--Fiction.
- Sexual slavery--Fiction.
- African-American teenage girls--Fiction.
- Fifteen-year-old girls--Fiction.
- Africans in the United States--Fiction.
- Fugitive slaves--Fiction.
- Rape--Fiction.
- Racism--Fiction.
- Cruelty--Fiction.
- Exploitation--Fiction.
- Friendship--Fiction.
- Determination in teenage girls--Fiction.
- Escapes--Fiction.
- Survival--Fiction.
- Indentured servants--Fiction.
- South Carolina--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Fiction.
- Florida--Spanish colony, 1565-1763--History--Fiction.
- African Americans--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Young adult fiction.
- Juvenile materials.
- Young adult works.
- Fiction.
- History.
- Juvenile works.
- Physical Description:
- 302 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, ©2006.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-306).
- Coretta Scott King Award, author, 2007.
- Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2007.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0689821816
- 9780689821813
- 1416953485
- 9781416953487
- 1415655634
- 9781415655634
- OCLC:
- 58452076
- Publisher Number:
- 9780689821813
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