![]() ![]() Urn:oclc:859079926 Scandate 20110422223200 Scanner . Glaxy Films Book TrailerCopper Sun By Sharon Draper Short Summary:A story of a young girl torn from her African village, sold into slavery, and stripped of e. ![]() OL12484W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 92.06 Pages 342 Ppi 514 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0786289481 Draper has said that she was inspired to write Copper Sun after a visit to one of the slave factories (the buildings where slaves were held on the coast) in West Africa and after crawling through one of the passages of no return, as Amari does in the novel. Amari, a fifteen year old African girl, ripped from her homeland, and forced to work on a rice plantation, finds her inner strength by not giving up on hope. Urn:lcp:coppersun00drap:epub:e6896c2e-a6c0-4efd-b277-aea9032ed993 Extramarc OhioLINK Library Catalog Foldoutcount 0 Identifier coppersun00drap Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t6252gm2c Isbn 9781416953487ġ416953485 Lccn 2005005540 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary_edition In the face of hardships, one must never lose courage or led to be discouraged. Curatenote shipped DonorĪllen_countydonation Edition 1st Simon Pulse ed. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 16:57:43 Boxid IA130720 Boxid_2 CH103901 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York, N.Y. ![]()
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