书名：Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush幽灵的低语
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数800L
作者：Virginia Hamilton维吉尼亚·汉密尔顿
出版社名称：Amistad
出版时间：2001
语种：英文
ISBN：9780380651931
商品尺寸：10.8 x 1.9 x 17.1 cm
包装：平装
页数：224
Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush《幽灵的低语》是美国文坛泰斗维吉尼亚·汉密尔顿代表作，作者获国际安徒生奖，劳拉·英格尔斯怀尔德终生成就奖。本书横扫纽伯瑞文学奖银奖，书卷奖，ALA杰出图书奖，波士顿图书奖，科斯塔斯哥特金荣誉奖等20项大奖。

名人推荐
“这本书从第1页开始，就相当吸引你的注意力。”——凯瑟琳·佩特森《纽约时报书评》
“这是汉密尔顿写作鼎盛时期的作品，小说从人道主义的角度，理解不断抗争中的人们，并且对人们之间的爱的力量满怀希望。”——《学校图书馆学刊》
“为青少年写作的小说家，几乎没能够像本书作者这样，大胆而富有创造力，让阅读充满挑战。这本小说中的人物就像生活本身一样，复杂、矛盾、摇摆不定。这本小说非常人性，绝对令人信服。”——《号角图书》
“本书故事构思巧妙，情节生动。作者又一次大胆地尝试了探索人类精神的新途径，给读者来强大的阅读体验。”——美国图书馆协会《书目》
“其他作家，都不能够像维吉尼亚·汉密尔顿这样，提高儿童文学的水平。”——贝特西·赫恩《二十世纪儿童文学作家》

Review
“This is Hamilton at her best, with a humane acceptance of people in their struggle, and hope for the power of their love”. —School Library Journal
“Unique... wonderfully human... It fairly reaches off the first page to grab you.” —Katherine Peterson, The New York Times Book Review
“A superb book, convincing and profoundly affecting.” —Publisher’s Weekly
Virginia Hamilton has heightened the standards for children’s literature as few other authors have. ” —Betsy Hearne, Twentieth-Century Children’s Writers
“Deeply felt... fully imagined.” —Kirkus Review
泰莉莎对布拉泽一见钟情。泰莉爱他爱得神魂颠倒，这是让她心跳疯狂加速、让她窒息的一见钟情。但是，三周以后，她才知道布拉泽·莱希是个幽灵。那天是星期五，大雨倾盆，漆黑一片，天气特别恶劣。他为什么带着遥远的过去，带着阴暗的秘密来拜访她？他是来帮助泰博，她那位疏庸愚钝、浑身神秘地疼痛的哥哥吗？他是来帮助全身心地爱着他们却不能经常在家陪伴他们、让他们朝思暮想的薇妈妈吗？泰莉知道，无论他带着什么秘密，她必须跟上他。她必须跟上布拉泽·莱希穿越魔镜，发现真相，发现所有人的真相。
The first time Teresa saw Brother was the way she would think of him ever after. Tree fell head over heels for him. It was love at first sight in a wild beating of her heart that took her breath. But it was a dark Friday three weeks later when it rained, hard and wicked, before she knew Brother Rush was a ghost.
Why had he come to her, with his dark secrets from a long-ago past? What was the purpose of their strange, haunting journeys back into her own childhood? Was it to help Dab, her retarded older brother, wracked with mysterious pain who sometimes took more care and love than Tree had to give? Was it for her mother, Vy, who loved them the best she knew how, but wasn’t home enough to ease the terrible longing?
Whatever secrets his whispered message held, Tree knew she must follow. She must follow Brother Rush through the magic mirror, and find out the truth. About all of them.
维吉尼亚·汉密尔顿非洲裔美国泰斗级女作家，其一生撰写的41部作品给青少年文学树立了崭新的标杆。荣膺过包括安徒生奖，劳拉·英格尔斯怀尔德奖，纽伯瑞文学奖，国家图书奖，书卷奖，爱伦坡奖，波士顿图书奖，科斯塔斯哥特金荣誉奖在内的几乎所有的青少年文学奖项。

Virginia Hamilton’s books have won many awards and honors. One of these, the first book ever to win both the John Newbery Medal and the National Book Award, M.C. Higgins, the Great, was also the recipient of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award and the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award. The Planet of Junior Brown was a Newbery Honor Book in 1971, and four of Virginia Hamilton’s other books have been named Notable Children’s books by the American Library Association.
Ms. Hamilton is married to Arnold Adoff, who is a distinguished poet and anthologist. They live with their two children in Ohio.