Feathers
From AwardAnnals
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| Author(s) | Jacqueline Woodson |
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| Publisher | Putnam Juvenile |
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| Hope is the thing with feathers starts the poem Frannie is reading in school. Frannie hasnt thought much about hope. There are so many other things to think about. Each day, her friend Samantha seems a bit more holy. There is a new boy in class everyone is calling the Jesus Boy. And although the new boy looks like a white kid, he says hes not white. Who is he?
During a winter full of surprises, good and bad, Frannie starts seeing a lot of things in a new lighther brother Seans deafness, her mothers fear, the class bullys anger, her best friends faith and her own desire for the thing with feathers. Jacqueline Woodson once again takes readers on a journey into a young girls heart and reveals the pain and the joy of learning to look beneath the surface. | |
Hope is the thing with feathers starts the poem Frannie is reading in school. Frannie hasnt thought much about hope. There are so many other things to think about. Each day, her friend Samantha seems a bit more holy. There is a new boy in class everyone is calling the Jesus Boy. And although the new boy looks like a white kid, he says hes not white. Who is he?
During a winter full of surprises, good and bad, Frannie starts seeing a lot of things in a new lighther brother Seans deafness, her mothers fear, the class bullys anger, her best friends faith and her own desire for the thing with feathers.
Jacqueline Woodson once again takes readers on a journey into a young girls heart and reveals the pain and the joy of learning to look beneath the surface.
Reviews
Barnes and Noble
“Hope is the thing with feathers / that perches in the soul.” Frannie, this novel’s 16-year-old narrator, lives with a sweet sense of expectation, a feeling nurtured in her loving home. But even the purest hope does not always materialize. When a white boy nicknamed Jesus Boy joins her previously all-black class, Frannie and one of her friends start to believe that he might indeed be special. An unexpected occurrence snaps them back to reality. Carefully nuanced portrayals and a sensitive look racial segregation, prejudice, and religious faith by a Coretta Scott King Award-winning author.
