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Also by Jacqueline Woodson:

Red at the Bone, September 2020
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Another Brooklyn, June 2017
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Another Brooklyn, August 2016
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Brown Girl Dreaming, November 2014
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Beneath A Meth Moon, February 2012
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Feathers, March 2007
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The Other Side, January 2001
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FEATHERS
By: Jacqueline Woodson

"Hope is the thing with feathers." Emily Dickinson

Putnam
March 2007
On Sale: March 1, 2007
Featuring: Frannie
208 pages
ISBN: 0399239898
EAN: 9780399239892
Hardcover
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Young Adult

“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.

Media Buzz

All Things Considered - January 14, 2008
News and Notes - March 23, 2007