Book
Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush
by Virginia Hamilton
- Published
- 1982
- Genre
- Fiction
- Words
- 60655
Reading measures
- Accelerated Reader level
- 3.8
- AR interest level
- MG+ — upper middle grades, 6–8
- Lexile
- 550L
- Suggested reading age
- ages 11–14
Fourteen-year-old Tree, often left caring for her developmentally disabled brother while their mother works away from home, encounters the ghostly Brother Rush and is drawn into visions that reveal painful truths about her family's past.
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9780399208942
Tags
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