Book Review

Copper Sun by Sharon M. Draper was published in 2006. Copper Sun is about a young girl named Amari, and how she is captured by white settlers, and taken to America and sold to a man named Mr. Derby. Her journey starts when her future husband named Besa notices white settlers. These white settlers end up kidnapping many people from Amari’s village and the villages near her village. After that she went on a brutal and horrifying voyage to America. The story was seen in Amari’s point of view up until Amari was taken to the auction were she was sold. At that point the point of view was seen through Polly, a young white indentured girl.

She saw the slaves get sold at the auction because she worked for Mr. Derby, an impulsive and horrifying man, and Mr. Derby was at the auction, buying a young African girl for his son, Clay. Mr. Derby had bought Amari, and he took her to Derbyshire Farms. When Amari arrived at Derbyshire Farms, she was placed in a small cabin with three other people, Polly, Tidbit, and Teenie. They bonded together, and knew that they are some kind of family, trying to live another day. This is exceptionally inspiring because Amari had lost hope, and she even preferred to die then live another day. Her family ameliorated her life so much that she can’t leave her family, and she can’t even live without them.

Short after, Amari and everyone else started to uncover a few hidden mysteries about Mrs. Derby, Mr. Derby’s wife. These uncovered secrets trigger multiple events that end up with tragic and cathartic results. This book has many secrets and can change the emotion of the reader in an instant. I loved this book because it had many plot changing events and left you speechless, and if I could change anything about the book, it would nothing because the book was great and suspenseful from the beginning until the end. I would recommend this book to several people, but most likely to people who like to read historical fiction book.