Sharon M. Draper

thumb|Sharon M. Draper Sharon Mills Draper (born August 21, 1948) is an American children's writer, professional educator, and the 1997 National Teacher of the Year. She is a five-time winner of the Coretta Scott King Award for books about the young and adolescent African-American experience. Quotes 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. Chapter 1, Page 2 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. Chapter 1, Page 5 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” Page 24 The spirit of the copper sun seemed to bleed for them as it glowed bright red against the deepening blue of the great water. Chapter 5, Page 34 External links Category:Novelists from the United States Category:Children's authors Category:Educators from the United States Category:Young adult authors Category:20th-century African-American women Category:21st-century African-American women Category:Women authors from the United States Category:People from Cleveland Category:1948 births Category:Women born in the 1940s Category:Living people