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Virginia Hamilton : five novels / Virginia Hamilton.

by Hamilton, Virginia, 1934-2002

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Library of America, 2021.

Blacks -- United States -- Fiction.

Underground Railroad -- Fiction.

Families, Black -- Fiction.

Short stories, American.

9781598537017 (hc.)

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898 p. ; ill. : 21cm.

Zeely -- The House of Dies Drear -- The planet of Junior Brown -- M. C. Higgins, the Great -- Sweet whispers, Brother Rush.

This volume collects five of Virginia Hamilton's best known and most beloved works. In Zeely (1967), Geeder Perry and her brother, Toeboy, go to their uncle's farm for the summer and encounter a six-and-a-half-foot-tall Watusi queen and a mysterious night traveler. In the Edgar Award-winning The House of Dies Drear (1968), Thomas Small and his family move to a forbidding former waystation on the Underground Railroad, a house whose secrets Thomas must discover before it's too late. Junior Brown, a three-hundred-pound musical prodigy, plays a silent piano in The Planet of Junior Brown (1971), while his homeless friend Buddy Clark draws on all his New York City wit to protect Junior's disintegrating mind. In the National Book Award winning M.C. Higgins, The Great (1974), Mayo Cornelius Higgins sits atop a forty-foot pole on the side of Sarah's Mountain and dreams of escape. Poised above his family's home is a massive spoil heap from strip-mining that could come crashing down at any moment. Can he rescue his family and save his own future? Must he choose? And in Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush (1982), fifteen-year-old Tree's life revolves around her ailing brother, Dab, until she sees cool, handsome Brother Rush, an enigmatic figure who may hold the key to unlocking her family's troubled past. --Amazon.ca.

Rubini, Julie, editor.

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