In her new novel for young readers, Ohio native Sharon M. Draper returns to bright, engaging 12-year-old Melody, who refuses to let her cerebral palsy define her life. “Out of My Heart,” publishing ...

Fans of two-time Coretta Scott King Award-winner Sharon Draper have reasons to celebrate this fall. Draper’s new middle grade novel Out of My Dreams—the third in her bestselling Out of My Mind ...

Bestselling author Sharon Draper, author of “Out of My Mind,” will visit two Bartholomew Consolidated School Corp. schools on Oct. 21 and appear at the Bartholomew Reads Authors Conference/Literacy ...

Bestselling author Sharon M. Draper never intended to write a sequel to her 2010 novel Out of My Mind, which follows the adventures of Melody Brooks, an 11-year-old girl with cerebral palsy, as she ...

Copper Sun, a Coretta Scott King Award-winning historical novel written by Sharon M. Draper and published in 2006, chronicles the story of 15-year-old Amari, whose life is forever changed when her ...

Although Draper had so much success with the book, she was not so sure that she wanted to continue to write about Melody. But she couldn’t deny the legions of students, teachers and parents who had ...

Award-winning Young Adult author Sharon Draper will be in Buffalo for the Harlem Book Fair Saturday to discuss her new Young Adult novel, "Copper Sun," winner of the Coretta Scott King Award. Draper ...