[LM_NET] BOOK: Hush by Woodson

[Frederick Muller <mullinator52@YAHOO.COM>]

Woodson, Jacqueline._Hush._Speak/Penguin, 2002 [0-14-250049-6]
  WOW this is a powerful book!  Toswiah's father (an African American cop in 
Denver) sees two while police officers shoot a defenseless African American boy.  
He knows it is wrong so he says he will testify again them.  Down comes the "Blue 
Wall of Silence!"  The family is threatened and even bullets are fired through 
their living room window.  One night the family is whisked away under the witness 
protection program to live in another city.  Here the whole family gets new 
identities.  The father goes into depression and can't find a job because all he 
knows is policing (which he isn't allowed to do.)  The mother becomes a devout 
Johovah's Witness so not only do the kids lose all their friends but they also lose 
birthdayday and holidays. The kids are told to look forward, not backwards. This 
180 book is a powerful book about personal identity, something with which all 
teenagers deal.


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Frederick Muller, Librarian
Halsted Middle School (Grades 6-8)
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Newton, NJ  07860

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