Read For: Leisure/recommended by my cooperating teacher
Rating: 3.5
Compared to Romiette and Julio, the only other Sharon Draper book that I have read, Copper Sun is Booker Prize material. Compared with other novels (actual Booker Prize winners, perhaps), Copper Sun falls extremely short. This book is a work of historicall fiction, following the life of Amari, and African girl who is captured and taken to America on the Middle Passage and then sold as a slave. In her new life she befriends Polly, and indentured servant working on the same plantation, and the two escape together.
Draper does a good job of portraying the life on a plantation in an age-appropriate way, as this book is geared towards middle school students. There is plenty of action as well as some romance, so I think that it could appeal to both male and female students. The writing is far better than Romiette and Julio and the story less contrived, so this is a pleasant read that I would recommend for middle schoolers.
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