Sharon Draper is a two-time Coretta Scott King Award-winning author, most recently for Copper Sun, Forged by Fire. She's also the recipient of the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Author Award for New Talent for Tears of a Tiger and the Coretta Scott King Author Honor for The Battle of Jericho  and November Blues. Her other books include Romiette and Julio, Darkness Before Dawn, and Double Dutch. She lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, where she taught high school English for twenty-five years. She's a popular conference speaker, addressing educational and literary groups both nationally and internationally. For more information visit her online at www.sharondraper.com.

Books by Sharon M. Draper

Out of My Mind

by Sharon M. Draper - Fiction, Young Adult 9+

Copper Sun

by Sharon M. Draper - Historical Fiction

Fifteen-year-old Amari is taken from her village in Africa by pale-faced strangers and sent across the ocean to America. She is sold to a plantation owner in the Carolinas who wants a birthday present for his son. Here Amari meets Polly, an indentured white girl, and the two girls from different ends of the earth bond together in order to survive --- and their friendship just might help them fight their way to freedom.

The Battle of Jericho

by Sharon M. Draper - Fiction

Romiette and Julio

by Sharon M. Draper