Author
Sharon M. Draper
14 award wins, 8 nominations across 6 books.
Copper Sun
Published 2006-09-20 · 314 pages
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.
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Darkness Before Dawn
Published 2002-07-01 · 256 pages
Recovering from the recent suicide of her ex-boyfriend, senior class president Keisha Montgomery finds herself attracted to a dangerous, older man.
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November Blues
Published 2007-10-23 · 320 pages
A teenage boy’s death in a hazing accident has lasting effects on his pregnant girlfriend and his guilt ridden cousin, who gives up a promising music career to play football in his senior year of high school.
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Out of My Mind
Published 2010-03-09 · 315 pages
Eleven-year-old Melody has a photographic memory. Her head is like a video camera that is always recording. Always. And there's no delete button. She's the smartest kid in her whole school, but no one knows it. Most people — her teachers and doctors included — don't think she's capable of learning, and until recently her school days consisted of listening to the same preschool-level alphabet lessons again and again and again. If only she could speak up, if only she could tell people what she thinks and knows...but she can't, because Melody can't talk. She can't walk.
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Tears of a Tiger
180 pages
The death of high school basketball star Rob Washington in an automobile accident affects the lives of his close friend Andy, who was driving the car, and many others in the school.
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The Battle of Jericho
297 pages
When Jericho is invited to pledge for the Warriors of Distinction, he thinks his life can't get any better. As the most exclusive club in school, the Warriors give the best parties, go out with the hottest girls, and sail through their classes. And when Arielle, one of the finest girls in his class, starts coming on to him once the pledge announcements are made, Jericho is determined to do anything to become a member...
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