Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush: A Newbery Honor Award Winner Cover:Paperback As a straight B-student with

As a straight B-student with a heart of copper

Strong Black Girls lays bare the harm Black women and girls are expected to overcome in order to receive an education in America

set in southwest Kenya

” Because sometimes silence can be more powerful than screaming and shouting

his community gathers around him

Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush: A Newbery Honor Award Winner Cover:Paperback As a straight B-student withNational 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?