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Sweet whispers, Brother Rush

Virginia Hamilton

Ages 12–16

Readers rate it 4.0 (1 on Hardcover)

215 pages · Released 1983

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Sweet whispers, Brother Rush parent’s guide: what’s inside

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Violence

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LGBTQ+ themes

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A note for parents

This Newbery Honor classic is a literary ghost story that explores family trauma and disability through a supernatural lens. The narrative deals with serious themes like parental neglect, a family member's disability, and difficult truths about the past, but ultimately affirms resilience and self-worth. It's best suited for older middle-grade and early teen readers who can handle emotional weight and magical realism.

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From the publisher

A beautiful ghost appears to a troubled teen and shows her the heartbreaking secrets of her family’s past Fifteen-year-old Teresa has fallen in love—with a ghost. The handsome man that she’s passed on the street a few times captures her attention, and she thinks he notices her too. But when the man suddenly appears... A beautiful ghost appears to a troubled teen and shows her the heartbreaking secrets of her family’s past Fifteen-year-old Teresa has fallen in love—with a ghost. The handsome man that she’s passed on the street a few times captures her attention, and she thinks he notices her too. But when the man suddenly appears inside her home, hovering in the air and passing through solid furniture, Teresa realizes this isn’t going to be a typical crush. The ghost is Brother Rush, a man tied to Teresa’s past, who has come to show her the ways her life has special meaning, and that her problems at school and at home are not what they seem.

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  • Juvenile fiction
  • Fiction
  • Single-parent families
  • African Americans
  • Ghost stories
  • Family problems
  • Children with disabilities
  • Ghosts
  • Families
  • Single-parent family
  • Dysfunctional families
  • 1000blackgirlbooks

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