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Author Hamilton, Virginia, 1934-2002.

Title Sweet whispers, Brother Rush / Virginia Hamilton.

Imprint New York, N.Y. : Philomel Books, 1982.

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Location Call No. Status
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Children's Department  LJW MIDDLE GRADE HAMILTON    Storage
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Children's Department  JUV. 818 H221S    Check Shelf
Description 215 pages ; 22 cm
age Age: Preteens lcdgt
edu Educational level: Middle school students lcdgt
edu Educational level: School children lcdgt
Awards Boston Globe/Horn Book Fiction Award, 1983
Newbery Honor Book, 1983.
Summary Fourteen-year-old Tree, resentful of her working mother who leaves her in charge of a retarded brother, encounters the ghost of her dead uncle and comes to a deeper understanding of her family's problems.
Audience 550L Lexile.
Decoding indicator: 100 (high) Semantic indicator: 100 (high) Syntactic indicator: 80 (high) Structure indicator: 90 (high) Lexile.
Awards Coretta Scott King Award, author, 1983.
Study Program Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning MG+ 3.8 8.
Subject Families -- Juvenile fiction.
Single-parent families -- Juvenile fiction.
Ghost stories.
African Americans -- Juvenile fiction.
African Americans -- Fiction.
Family problems -- Fiction.
Single-parent families -- Fiction.
Ghosts -- Fiction.
African Americans -- Fiction.
African Americans. (OCoLC)fst00799558
Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
Ghost stories. (OCoLC)fst00942396
Single-parent families. (OCoLC)fst01119481
Family problems -- Fiction.
Single-parent families -- Fiction.
Ghost stories.
African Americans -- Fiction.
Accelerated Reader.
Indexed Term African Americans Fiction
Family problems Fiction
Ghosts Fiction
Single-parent families Fiction
Genre/Form Ghost stories -- Juvenile.
Curriculum resource.
Ghost stories. (OCoLC)fst01726625
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
Ghost stories.
Ghost stories.
Other Form: Online version: Hamilton, Virginia, 1936-2002. Sweet whispers, Brother Rush. New York, N.Y. : Philomel Books, 1982 (OCoLC)557989711
ISBN 0399208941
9780399208942
9780758703194
0758703198
0380651939
9780380651931
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