Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush
by Hamilton, Virginia
ALA Best Book for Young AdultsBoston Globe/Horn Book Award/HonorsSLJ Best BookNewbery HonorNCTE Notable Children's Books in the LanCoretta Scott King Award/HonorsBooklist Editors' ChoiceIBBY Honor List
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AR Book Level
3.8
AR Points
8
Word Count
60,655
Interest Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Genre
Fiction
AR Quiz #
141 EN
About this book
Fourteen-year-old Tree, resentful of her working mother who leaves her in charge of a handicapped brother, encounters the ghost of her dead uncle and comes to a deeper understanding of her family's problems.