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Overview

Evie Thomas is not who she used to be. Once she had a best friend, a happy home and a loving grandmother living nearby. Once her name was Toswiah.

Now, everything is different. Her family has been forced to move to a new place and change their identities. But that's not all that has changed. Her once lively father has become depressed and quiet. Her mother leaves teaching behind and clings to a new-found religion. Her only sister is making secret plans to leave.

And Evie, struggling to find her way in a new city ...
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Overview

Evie Thomas is not who she used to be. Once she had a best friend, a happy home and a loving grandmother living nearby. Once her name was Toswiah.

Now, everything is different. Her family has been forced to move to a new place and change their identities. But that's not all that has changed. Her once lively father has become depressed and quiet. Her mother leaves teaching behind and clings to a new-found religion. Her only sister is making secret plans to leave.

And Evie, struggling to find her way in a new city where kids aren't friendly and the terrain is as unfamiliar as her name, wonders who she is.

Jaqueline Woodson weaves a fascinating portrait of a thoughtful young girl's coming of age in a world turned upside down

Twelve-year-old Toswiah finds her life changed when her family enters the witness protection program.

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Finalist for the 2002 National Book Award, Young People's Literature

The Barnes & Noble Review
Jacqueline Woodson, the acclaimed author of such award winners as Miracle's Boys and If You Come Softly, has given us a remarkable novel about one girl's struggle with identity during her family's involvement in the witness protection program.

Through Woodson's poetic prose, we learn about Toswiah's father's testimony against two fellow policemen, her family's clandestine move, and finally, her confusion over her name change to Evie Thomas. In this strange new world, she copes with family members' similar struggles and tries to build a new school life and personality. Woodson provides complex social situations and real personalities in Hush, and as her fans have come to appreciate in her other novels, she paints a quietly intense picture without getting bogged down in dramatics. This tour de force will move and inspire you. Matt Warner

Kathleen Odean
In Woodson's thought-provoking novel, thirteen-year-old Toswiah must take on a new identity when her family enters a witness protection program. Her father, an African-American police officer, has testified against white officers who killed a black teenager. Threats follow, and Toswiah's family moves to an unidentified town to start life over. Toswiah, now called Evie, and her parents and sister cope in different ways, not always successfully, with the painful consequences of the father's act of courage.
From The Critics
When Toswiah Green's father, witness to a murder, does the right thing by testifying against two fellow police officers, he puts his entire family in danger. Now the Greens have fled for their lives, leaving behind all that is comfortable and familiar for the alien existences laid out by the witness protection program. Shifting between past and present, Woodson's (Miracle's Boys; If You Come Softly) introspective novel probes the complex reactions of 12-year-old Toswiah as she reluctantly reinvents herself as Evie Thomas. Telling lies about her past is as awkward for Toswiah as her adjustment to a new apartment, city and school, but most disturbing of all is the fragmentation of her formerly close-knit family. Toswiah's mother, searching for meaning and for support, becomes an avid Jehovah's Witness. Mr. Green slips into suicidal depression, and Toswiah's older sister, unbeknownst to their parents, arranges to enter college at 15. "Evie/Toswiah Thomas/Green," as the narrator once refers to herself, taps hidden stores of inner strength, ultimately realizing that "I am no longer who I was in Denver, but at least and at most I am." Readers facing their own identity crises will find familiar conflicts magnified and exponentially compounded here, yet instantly recognizable and optimistically addressed. Ages 10-up. (Jan.) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781101157268
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
  • Publication date: 6/8/2006
  • Sold by: Penguin Group
  • Format: eBook
  • Pages: 208
  • Sales rank: 139,071
  • Age range: 12 - 17 Years
  • File size: 193 KB
  • Items ship to U.S, APO/FPO and U.S. Protectorate addresses.

Meet the Author

Jacqueline Woodson

Jacqueline Woodson has received numerous awards for her middle-grade and young adult books, which include the National Book Award Finalist Hush and the Coretta Scott King Award and Los Angeles Times Book Prize winner Miracle's Boys.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 17, 2006

    FIVE STARS

    I loved this book Hush it is a book that teens can relate to without getting tired of reading it every chapter makes you want to read more and more I will keep in touch with her books because they all have a meaning to them that I can never forget.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 3, 2011

    GREAT!!!!!

    I had to read this in school and i was in a book group so I was only allowed to read a certain number of chapters at a time but i wanted to keep reading, I could not stop! Read it!
    By Ever

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 26, 2010

    Hush

    Book title and author: Hush, Jacqueline Woodson
    Title of review: 8th Grade, Ritchie County Middle School; great book
    Number of stars (1 to 5):

    Introduction
    Jacqueline Woodson yet again shows of her brilliance in her book entitled Hush. Woodson creates a reality of the Green family's troubles and dilemmas.
    Description and summary of main points
    Toswiah Green has her whole world flipped upside down when her father chooses to testify against a fellow policeman. Toswiah and her family are forced to change their identity, but this is the least of her problems. The Greens were forced to keep quiet about everything going on in their lives.
    Evaluation
    I love how the book was such an unusual situation. The majority of the book was unexpected.
    Conclusion
    Woodson produces an amazing piece of work.
    Your final review
    This book was very touching. I definitely recommend this book, and this author.

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  • Posted March 8, 2010

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    Good for young reader

    this book is good for younger readers. I personally found it a bit dull when comapred to the other books I've read and felt it could use deeper characters. The main character is likable and you do feel sorry for her as she wacthed her family fall apart.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 20, 2007

    this book was very touching to my heart

    this book was the best book in the whole world....not really but i enjoyed reading it..

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 16, 2006

    Great Book

    This was an outstanding book. I read it from the library. I could not even return it. I think that it is important for young people and has a great moral to it.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 25, 2006

    Loved It!!

    Can you imagine having to change your whole life? Loose your best friend, your home and everything you love? Well that¿s what happened to Toswiah, a twelve-year-old girl who had the ¿typical¿ life of a teen. In this fictional story Toswiah and her family had to move because her father was a witness in a crime. This whole thing turned into a racial issue. Their lives started to be in danger because some people didn¿t want her father to tell the truth about the crime. The family had to move and change their identities, but this was just the beginning of their new life and they also changed their personalities and their actions because of the hard situation they went through. Toswiah¿s father spends most of his time looking out the window, her mom has found a new religion that she is so involved in, and her sister is making some sort of plan to get out of the house. Then there is Toswiah, feeling very lost, frustrated, and very lonely, who can¿t express her feelings to anybody. I have never read a book this intense, powerful and interesting. Jacqueline Woodson tells the life of a young girl in such a realistic way that you can actually feel the sadness and the pain that Toswiah went through. I recommend this book to anyone who has been through any situation that has made them change their life forever.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 27, 2006

    this was a great book.

    this book was.great in this book there was a situation with a teenager getting shot for no reason. in this book it was black family this black family also included a black cop{the father} the cop was affened. this cop was affended because he was black also and he felt that the teen was shot cause he was black.

    0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 16, 2006

    Not too bad, Not too good.

    I really liked the idea of it but I think it could be takin to the next level. I think Jacqueline Woodson could have put more into it about how it was after they were put into the Witness Protection Program and maybe what happened after the story. Like 10 years later or something.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 28, 2005

    Hush Review by Janaera J. Jenkins

    I thought Hush was pretty good. It was sad but it makes you think about all the stuff you take for granted and makes you wonder what you would be like if you were in this kind of situation. I am a very young author and I think it was terrificly written!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 18, 2005

    A Reviewer

    i thought the book was great. It made me think about alot of things and i would recommend it to people. It wasn't the best i've seen Jacqueline Woodson do but it was great.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 20, 2004

    I was dissapointed

    I had to read it for my English class, and it was a black eyed Susan book, so I thought it would be pretty good, but after I read it I was disappointed. The beginning was good, but the rest of the book was pretty dry to me. I wouldn't recommend it, but some other people in my class thought it was an okay book.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 10, 2004

    GREAT

    this was a really good book thats all i should have to say because it was good. i read it in 2 days. it makes u keep reading this depressing yet wonderful story!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 2, 2004

    Best Book Ever!!!

    If you want to read a good book, than this is the kind of book you need to read. This is the best book I have ever read, so I think you should read it.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 15, 2003

    OK book

    this book was ok, defeintly not one of her best. i didn't like it too much, i thought it was sad, but it had a pretty good ending.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 19, 2003

    wonderful

    i really enjoyed this book it kept me wnating to read more and more. I must admit the title really sount boring when my teacher said i had to read it. but i liked it a lot

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 29, 2002

    This was a great book

    This book was amazing! It was about a black girl that has to move away because her father witnessed a shooting. It was one of the best books I have ever read.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 16, 2002

    A BOOK THAT IS AMAZING

    I LOVED THIS BOOK.IT TOUCHED MY HEART.YOU SHOULD READ IT. THE BOOK IS ABOUT A 12 YEAR OLD BLACK GIRL.HER DAD WITNESSED A SHOTTING OF A BLACK YUNG MAN.IF YOU WANT MORE INFO READ THE BOOK YOUR SELF. PS.I LOVE ERIC

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