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Summary: Wonderful! Challenges Youth to interrogate white priviledge
Review: The racism of white police officers is exposed in this excellent novel for young readers. While conservatives will find this book threatening, intellectuals, professors and everyone else with the courage to question the status quo will find this book exciting, exacting, challenging, and wonderfully written.
Superb!
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Summary: Exiciting book for all ages
Review: This book I would recomend to any one who ever felt that ever felt that they had to change their identity and if you had a best friend that you had to leave becaus you were forced to move to a new city/town were you knew absolutly nobody.I Give this book two tumbs up!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: Hush by Jacqueline Woodson
Review: This book is a story about an African-American girl who is part of a witness protection program. She had to move away with her family into a brand new city. The main character in this story is Toswiah Green/Evie Thomas (she has two names because she is in the W.P.P.). She is pretty shy and not very social. Her long legs make her a very good runner. The main charcter's older sister, Cameron Green/Anna Thomas, is more social, pretty much the complete opposite of her. They used to live in Denver, Colorado, but then they had to move away to a cold-hearted city when they were relocated by the W.P.P. Toswiah/Evie's father used to be a policeman. He witnessed two white cops shoot a black boy because of his skin color. He decided to go on trial and people started threatening him and his family. Officers Randall and Dennis are found guilty and have to go to jail. Now Toswiah/Evie must struggle to go on in the new city, after she left everything she had ever known behind. Her mother throws herself headfirst into religion and her father sits depressed at the window, thinking about who knows what. Cameron/Anna throws herself into schoolwork show she can go to college at 16 and leave this miserable place. Toswiah/Evie decides to run track, which helps her slowly reach out to people and make new friends. Finally, her dad throws his bowl against the floor and cuts himself, attempting suicide. He is rushed to hospital, where he recovers, and comes back as the man Toswiah/Evie used to know back when they lived in Denver. After that, she knows everything is going to be just fine.
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Summary: Lost
Review: This book was very interesting. I think that Evie was very strong and intelligent. Anna was a normal average girl. The book was good but needed a better ending. The title of the book was very interesting because I would not named it Hush, I would have named it Lost. The title Lost would be because of the fact that they lost everything. Another title would have been Truth. The title Truth would have been because they lost everything because of Truth.
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Summary: New Life
Review: This novel is about a black family. There are 2 girls and 2 parents.Cameron and Toswiah are the 2 girls. Cameron is a cheerleader and Toswiah is an athlete. Therefore the father witnessed a crime scene and was forced to start a new life in a new place with a new name. Cameron is now Anna and Toswiah is now Evie. Evie experiences a new life at her new shool and even found someone named Toswiah. They become good friends. The mom becomes a Jehovah's Witness and the father stares out the window all day. I reccomend this book to to all people because people should know what its like to start a new life.
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Summary: The Life
Review: This novel was about a family having to change their identity;as well as their lives, just because their father witnessed a murder. His fellow friends, police officers, killed a young african-american boy. The Green family was put in a witness protection program, so they moved out of denvert, leaving family members, friends, and their belongings. They had to change their names and had to change the way they lived. The family didn't like it there. A lot happened to the family while they are there. Cameron, which is Anna now, had grown into a beautiful women. Toswiah which now is Evie, has made new friends and found what she likes most "track". The family went through a lot of changes, but they made it through. I think this was a great book, I enjoyed reading this book. I recommend this book to children of all ages. I hope they will enjoy it, like I did.
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Summary: All that you have is your soul.
Review: This powerful novel traces the life of a young girl, Toswiah, whose father testifies in court against fellow police officers so she and her family must enter into a witness protection program. The four of them are stripped of their home, their possessions, their beloved family and friends, and their names. Toswiah says, "all that you have is your soul" because she sees now that everything else in life can be taken away from you. As the youngest in the family, Toswiah not only struggles with her own loss of identity but has to watch her sister and both parents become people she does not recognize once their present and futures are taken away from them. Her life is a daily struggle, dealing with her devastated family and coping on her own in a new city and new school. Her sense of sadness, loss of confidence, and loneliness are wonderfully portrayed by the author. Through Toswiah's observations we see how much our lives in the present are inextricably linked to our past and our plans for the future and how important the identity we create is essential to our sense of self. Woodson's thought provoking novel teaches us through Toswiah and her family teach us what it would be like to have our identities, our pasts, and our futures all taken away forever. This is a great novel geared towards young adults but adults will enjoy it as well.
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Summary: Who Are We?
Review: Toswiah Green was an energtic 13 year old, having fun in Denver with her bestfriend Lula. He was fine, until her father had to testify against his two fellow cops. Now everything has just dissappeared. Her name is no longer Toswiah Green it is Evie Thomas. She has no clue who she is. She doesn't even know these people tyhat use to be her family. Her father sits at the window eating oatmeal all day, her mother is so into the Bible, and her sister is drowning in books. She has no confidence, no one to talk to, no friends, she just has no soul. This book teally captured the way Toswiah felt about hidding in th ewitness protection program. I would recommend this to young adults.
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Summary: ed210 review
Review: Toswiah Green's life is perfect until her father, a Denver police man, witnesses a murder. Toswiah and her family are then forced to leave Denver and take on new identities. Toswiah is struggling to remember who she was and learn who she is becoming. This is a great novel about having strength, courage, and hope when your whole world seems to be falling apart.
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Summary: Great Story for Adolescents
Review: While reading this story, I began to reflect on adolescence in general and through this story anyone can re-live their childhood. This story is about the coming of age of a young girl, Toswiah Green later known as Evie Thomas. The story is very sincere and makes the reader empathize deeply with the young girl. Woodson skillfully crafts this novel to include many of the challenges that adolescents face such as racism and identity struggles. By presenting these topics in the story Woodon brings reality to the world of adolescence and makes the story very engaging. A must read for anyone between the ages of 12 and up.
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