Justice and Her Brothers (Odyssey, Bk 1) (Book 1) [Paperback]

Virginia Hamilton (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1989 | Series: Odyssey, Bk 1

An eleven-year-old and her older twin brothers struggle to understand their supersensory powers.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Hamilton explores twinship and extrasensory forces in Book One of the Justice Cycle, which continues with Dustland and The Gathering. Ages 11-up.
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Product Details

• Paperback: 282 pages
• Publisher: Harcourt; First HBJ/ Odyssey Edition edition (August 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0152416404
• ISBN-13: 978-0152416409
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,026,116 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Virginia Esther Hamilton was born, as she said, "on the outer edge of the Great Depression," on March 12, 1934. The youngest of five children of Kenneth James and Etta Belle Perry Hamilton, Virginia grew up amid a large extended family in Yellow Springs, Ohio. The farmlands of southwestern Ohio had been home to her mother's family since the late 1850s, when Virginia's grandfather, Levi Perry, was brought into the state as an infant via the Underground Railroad.

Virginia graduated at the top of her high-school class and received a full scholarship to Antioch College in Yellow Springs. In 1956, she transferred to the Ohio State University in Columbus and majored in literature and creative writing. She moved to New York City in 1958, working as a museum receptionist, cost accountant, and nightclub singer, while she pursued her dream of being a published writer. She studied fiction writing at the New School for Social Research under Hiram Haydn, one of the founders of Atheneum Press.

It was also in New York that Virginia met poet Arnold Adoff. They were married in 1960. Arnold worked as a teacher, and Virginia was able to devote her full attention to writing, at least until daughter Leigh was born in 1963 and son Jaime in 1967. In 1969, Virginia and Arnold built their "dream home" in Yellow Springs, on the last remaining acres of the old Hamilton/Perry family farm, and settled into a life of serious literary work and achievement.

In her lifetime, Virginia wrote and published 41 books in multiple genres that spanned picture books and folktales, mysteries and science fiction, realistic novels and biography. Woven into her books is a deep concern with memory, tradition, and generational legacy, especially as they helped define the lives of African Americans. Virginia described her work as "Liberation Literature." She won every major award in youth literature.

Customer Reviews

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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A must read!, June 25, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Justice and Her Brothers (Point Signature) (Paperback)

This is a fascinating book that I read as a child and recently reread (and purchased) as an adult. This book was one of the first I read of the 'fantasy' genre. It really sparked my interest in these types of books. I highly recommend it.

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Series, November 30, 2007

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T. Adams "bizzyreading" (New York, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Justice and Her Brothers (Point Signature) (Paperback)

From the Back of the Book

Something Was Changing

But what thing? Something was happening in the house, with her brothers, herself. Out on the wide, sun-drenched lawn, down by the hedgerow, down by the black poisonous waters of the Quinella Trace... Something was stirring. What thing?

For eleven-year-old Justice the summer was becoming a dream and a nightmare - a hide-and-seek with a force she couldn't see. Alone in the house with her identical twin brothers, Justice knew they were hiding something from her, something they were afraid to let her know. It wasn't just Thomas with his angry stares or Levi disappearing the way he did. It was something (what-thing?) else...

It came upon her the morning of the Great Snake Race. A great gift has been bestowed on Justice and her brothers. Together they could be anything, anywhere - even in the future.

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Justice and her brothers.Outstanding!, January 28, 2000

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Arthur (AMHERST, Morocco) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Justice and Her Brothers (Point Signature) (Paperback)

This is an excelent book,after a while you get sucked into another world where Justice,Thomas and Levi live.But after a while you might get lost in the strange plot.