![]() ![]() "A wonderful and necessary purchase for public and school libraries alike."- VOYA " is a wonderful role model for coming of age in a thoughtful way, and the book offers to teach us all about holding on to hope."- Children's Literature 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. Who is he?ĭuring 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.” ![]() And although the new boy looks like a white kid, he says he’s not white. Each day, her friend Samantha seems a bit more “holy.” There is a new boy in class everyone is calling the Jesus Boy. There are so many other things to think about. ![]() “Hope is the thing with feathers” starts the poem Frannie is reading in school. A beautiful and moving novel from a three-time Newbery Honor-winning author ![]()
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