Hush - Softcover

Woodson, Jacqueline

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0142500496 ISBN 13: 9780142500491

Publisher: Speak, 2003

Synopsis

Having been forced to move with her family to a new town and live under new identities, Evie Thomas no longer has her community, best friend, or grandmother around and finds her world an unbearably lonely and confusing place as even her own family changes before her eyes. Jr Lib Guild & Natl Bk Award Finalist. Reprint.

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Review:

My name's Toswiah, I'd say. Toswiah Green. Have you ever heard of me? But my name is Evie now. And I've never been brave. I can never tell anybody the real truth. But I can write it and say this story you're about to read is fiction. I can give it a beginning, middle, and end. A plot. A character named Evie. A sister named Anna. Call it fiction because fiction's what it is. Evie and Anna aren't real people. So you can't go somewhere and look this up and say Now I know who this story's about. Because if you did, it would kill my father.

"Readers facing their own identity crises will find familiar conflicts magnified and exponentially compounded here, yet instantly recognizable and optimistically addressed."

"As she did so compellingly in Miracle's Boys and other books, Woodson tells a story of people torn apart by grief who eventually find a way to leave their sorrow in the past. Her poetic, low-key, yet vivid writing style perfectly conveys the story's atmosphere of quiet intensity."

"Sophisticated readers ... will come away with images and characters who are impossible to forget."

About the Author:

Born on February 12th in Columbus, Ohio, Jacqueline Woodson grew up in Greenville, South Carolina, and Brooklyn, New York and graduated from college with a B.A. in English. She now writes full-time and has recently received the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults. Her other awards include a Newbery Honor, two Coretta Scott King awards, two National Book Award finalists, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Although she spends most of her time writing, Woodson also enjoys reading the works of emerging writers and encouraging young people to write, spending time with her friends and her family, and sewing. Jacqueline Woodson currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: Speak
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0142500496
• ISBN 13: 9780142500491
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 192