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Books like Copper Sun

24 books recommended for fans of Copper Sun by Sharon M. Draper, tied together by themes of Asian American & Pacific Islander, Prejudice & Racism, African American & Black, and People & Places.

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Top related books to Copper Sun

Titles selected for shared themes, overlapping readership, and similar literary appeal.

This Time Will Be Different

Misa Sugiura

Themes: Asian American & Pacific Islander • Prejudice & Racism • African American & Black

This Is My Brain in Love

I. W. Gregorio

Themes: Asian American & Pacific Islander • Prejudice & Racism • African American & Black

Sugar

Jewell Parker Rhodes

Themes: Asian American & Pacific Islander • Prejudice & Racism • African American & Black

We Are Not Free

Traci Chee

Themes: Asian American & Pacific Islander • Prejudice & Racism • People & Places

Finding My Voice

Marie G. Lee

Themes: Asian American & Pacific Islander • Prejudice & Racism • African American & Black

Forged by Fire

Sharon M. Draper

Themes: Asian American & Pacific Islander • African American & Black • People & Places

Wild Song

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Themes: Asian American & Pacific Islander • Prejudice & Racism • People & Places

Saving Savannah

Tonya Bolden

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • African American & Black • People & Places

The Game of Love and Death

Martha Brockenbrough

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • African American & Black • People & Places

#10

Call Me By My Name

John Ed Bradley

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • African American & Black • People & Places

#11

New Boy

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Themes: Prejudice & Racism • African American & Black • People & Places

#12

The Road to Memphis

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Themes: Prejudice & Racism • African American & Black • People & Places

#13

Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy A Newbery Honor Award Winner

Gary D. Schmidt

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • African American & Black • People & Places

#14

Black was the Ink

Michelle Coles

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • African American & Black • People & Places

#15

Queenie Godmother of Harlem

Elizabeth Colomba

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • African American & Black • People & Places

#16

If I Should Die Before I Wake

Han Nolan

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • African American & Black • People & Places

#17

The Sun is Also a Star

Nicola Yoon

Themes: Asian American & Pacific Islander • Prejudice & Racism • People & Places

#18

The Shadow Hero

Gene Luen Yang

Themes: Asian American & Pacific Islander • Prejudice & Racism • People & Places

#19

Frankly in Love

David Yoon

Themes: Asian American & Pacific Islander • Prejudice & Racism • People & Places

#20

Hollow Fires

Samira Ahmed (Fiction writer)

Themes: Asian American & Pacific Islander • Prejudice & Racism • People & Places

#21

What Happened this Summer

Paul Yee

Themes: Asian American & Pacific Islander • Prejudice & Racism • People & Places

#22

Inventing Victoria

Tonya Bolden

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • African American & Black • People & Places

#23

On the Come Up Collector’s Edition

Angie Thomas

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • African American & Black • People & Places

#24

Alligator Bayou

Donna Jo Napoli

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • African American & Black • People & Places

Fans of Copper Sun by Sharon M. Draper will find 24 titles here, all united by Asian American & Pacific Islander, Prejudice & Racism, African American & Black. Authors represented include Misa Sugiura, I. W. Gregorio, Jewell Parker Rhodes, Traci Chee, and others.