Hush by Jacqueline Woodson | Scholastic

When her police father decided to testify against his colleagues, Toswear Green 's life is over. The Green Party had to change its identity and move to other cities. Now Toswiah is Evie Thomas, this is the least change. Her defeated father sat at the window and spent his days. Her mother can no longer be a teacher, so she puts her energy in a new church. Her only younger sister is secretly planning to leave. And Ivy is trying to find his own way, I want to know who I am now and how I can brighten up my future as I have been.

Jacqueline Woodson's impressive new book is an adult novel that the reader loves. Toswiah Green, a young African-American girl, and her family Shirley, her loving and kind mother, her sister Cameron and her father Jonathan, the respected cops Hush, Denver's Green Party story comfort Live a middle class class. However, as Woodson explains their comfort and happiness, readers will quickly notice what their family is in trouble. When Jonathan revealed that his two white colleagues were shooting a black boy at the police, he refused to keep silent, but insisted that he would do the police code that was not written. He seems to be competing before this corrupt code. And of course, that justice is put in front of it. Of course, Jonathan and his family avoided it. They were also subject to a great death threat, put into a witness protection plan, and directed to a stigma town, Toswiah (narrator).

On January 9, at the Library of Congress, a famous writer Jacqueline Woodson became ambassador for youth literature from 2018 to 1919. As part of this exciting event, Mr. Woodson participated in a conversation with Dr. Carla Hayden, a curator of the Library of Congress, talked about the DC middle school, the staff of the Library of Congress and other guests, and gave the audience about her I answered. Ambassador, her own writing and a thoughtable question about the new role of creative process