Feathers

Feathers
by Jacqueline Woodson

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Author: Jacqueline Woodson
Edition: Hardcover
Published: 2007-03-01
ISBN: 0399239898
Number of pages: 208
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile

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Book Review: Hooray for good kids!
Summary: 5 Stars

Feathers--fine strands intricately connected to make something soft and beautiful, shimmering and uplifting. The musical language and the deliciously real detail would be enough, but the soul of this story is Frannie. She's not smart or pretty or graceful. She's not particularly poetic. She's certainly not religious. But she's good. She looks past what's peculiar and prickly to find those basic human connections that help her to do the right thing. Thanks, Jacqueline Woodson, for introducing us to Frannie and that Jesus Boy. In them we can all find hope. Readers who like Feathers might also like Danger, Long Division, in which another good kid, age 11, develops new perspectives on mean kids, friendship and family.

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Summary of Feathers

?Hope is the thing with feathers? starts the poem Frannie is reading in school. Frannie hasn?t 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 he?s not white. Who is he?

During a winter full of surprises, good and bad, Frannie starts seeing a lot of things in a new light?her brother Sean?s deafness, her mother?s fear, the class bully?s anger, her best friend?s faith and her own desire for ?the thing with feathers.?

Jacqueline Woodson once again takes readers on a journey into a young girl?s heart and reveals the pain and the joy of learning to look beneath the surface.

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