Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush: A Newbery Honor Award Winner Cover:Paperback and woodpecker

and woodpecker

set in southwest Kenya

his community gathers around him

And Mia's own plans to be a big writer are

As a straight B-student with a heart of copper

Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush: A Newbery Honor Award Winner Cover:Paperback and woodpeckerNational Book Award Finalist * Newbery Honor Book * Coretta Scott King Award Winner This towering classic from the esteemed author Virginia Hamilton "is like a thoughtfully designed African American quilt. It is finely stitched, tightly constructed, and rooted in cultural authenticity."* Why had Brother Rush come to her, with his dark secrets from a long ago past? What was the purpose of their strange, haunting journeys back into her own childhood?