I am not exactly interested so far.
Feathers
By Jacqueline Woodson
| Interest Level | Reading Level | Reading A-Z | ATOS | Word Count |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grades 6 - 8 | Grades 3 - 8 | X | 4.4 | 26624 |
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“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?
“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.
Publisher: Speak
ISBN-13: 9780142415504
ISBN-10: 0142415502
Published on 1/7/2010
Binding: Paperback
Number of pages: 160
Book Reviews (2)
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I think this book was veary interesting because in the began of the story they were in there classroom and then soon alater there was a new kid who came in and he was white there wasn,t alot of white pepole on that side of the highway and that,s when there was a mean boy name trevor and he picks on him that when trevor started calling him jesus boy and that,s how it began. there,s a girl who has a brother named sean and he is veary deaf . her mom had a baby she called her lila but she died. the girl that brothers deaf has a friend named samantha she is veary holy the little girl never went to church.