Woodson, Jacqueline. Hush.Penguin, Putnam. 179p. 2001. 0-399-23114-5. $15.99. J* The girls' mother has escaped into religious Fanaticism Within the spectrum of adherence to a particular belief system, religious fanaticism is the most extreme form of religious fundamentalism. Overview When adherents to a religion get involved in a pattern of violently and potentially deadly opposition to anyone they do not ; their father into depression. Why? The family's life was a happy one in Denver when the father, a police officer, decided to testify To provide evidence as a witness, subject to an oath or affirmation, in order to establish a particular fact or set of facts. Court rules require witnesses to testify about the facts they know that are relevant to the determination of the outcome of the case. against a fellow officer in the shooting death of a young African American African American Multiculture A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. See Race. teenager. This decision changed everything because it was necessary for the family to completely close off their past lives and enter a witness protection program with new identities. Even though this situation only affects a miniscule min·is·cule adj. Variant of minuscule. Adj. 1. miniscule - very small; "a minuscule kitchen"; "a minuscule amount of rain fell" minuscule number of teenagers, it is a dilemma that will capture most adolescents' imaginations. My God, what if tomorrow I had to start a completely new life in a new town with a new name--and I had to lie about everything and everyone in my past? The narrator NARRATOR. A pleader who draws narrs serviens narrator, a sergeant at law. Fleta, 1. 2, c. 37. Obsolete. is Toswiah, who is now known as Evie. She is a young teenager with an older sister now called Anna. Much of the book is taken up with the facts of their lives in Denver, and the events that happened that drove the girls' father to make the excruciating decision to betray the code police operate under, to always defend one another. Part of the reason is that Evie and her family are black, living for the most part assimilated in a white world. But when white officers kill a black boy, and Evie's father is a witness to this blatantly bla·tant adj. 1. Unpleasantly loud and noisy: "There are those who find the trombones blatant and the triangle silly, but both add effective color" Musical Heritage Review. racist act (he doesn't believe the boy would have been shot so quickly if he were white), Evie's father feels he must end this kind of police corruption Police corruption is a specific form of police misconduct sometimes involving political corruption, and generally designed to gain a financial or political benefit for a police officer or officers in exchange for not pursuing, or selectively pursuing, an investigation or arrest. by convicting the guilty officers ... even if this means the ruin of his own family. Woodson is one of the best novelists we have in the YA field. She brings poetry to her prose and always a deep understanding of emotional upheaval, especially felt by those in crisis. Her exploration of gender and racial issues in our society is done in such a way that her readers must reflect as they absorb Woodson's work, as they contemplate the characters and plot Woodson creates. Claire Rosser, KLIATT |
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