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The spirit of the copper sun seemed to bleed for them as it glowed bright red against the deepening blue of the great water.

— Sharon M. Draper Copper Sun (2006)

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We must welcome our guests, then, Amari. We would never judge people simply by how they looked—that would be uncivilized…Let us prepare for a celebration.

Copper Sun (2006)

Amari loved the rusty brown dirt of Ziavi. The path, hard-packed from thousands of bare feet that had trod on it for decades, was flanked on both sides by fat, fruit-laden mango trees, the sweet smell of which always seemed to welcome her home.

Copper Sun (2006)

The crowd is eventually separated, the men from the women, and shoved into a large, dark building where Amari can smell “sweat and fear…body wastes and hopelessness”

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