Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush - Tapa dura

Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 215 pages; "A Newbery Honor Book." --front cover. Summary: Fourteen-year-old Tree, resentful of her working mother who leaves her in charge of a retarded brother, encounters the ghost of her dead uncle and comes to a deeper understanding of her family's problems. Subjects: Family problems --Fiction. Single-parent families --Fiction. Ghosts --Fiction. African Americans --Juvenile Fiction -- Childrens literature. Description: 215 p. ; 22 cm.