Feathers (Newbery Honor Book)

View our feature on Jacqueline Woodson's 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 lighther 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.