Feathers, Jacqueline Woodson
Feathers, Jacqueline Woodson
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Feathers

Author: Jacqueline Woodson

Narrator: Sisi Aisha Johnson

Unabridged: 2 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 05/20/2008

Synopsis

Frannie doesn't know what to make of the poem she's reading in school. She 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.”Newbery Honor-winning author Jacqueline Woodson once again takes listeners on a journey into a young girl’s heart and reveals the pain and the joy of learning to look beneath the surface.

About Jacqueline Woodson

Jacqueline Woodson, winner of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults, is the author of Feathers, Newbery Honor winner Show Way, Miracle’s Boys (recipient of a Coretta Scott King Award and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize), Locomotion and Hush (both National Book Award finalists), among many others. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Michael on January 28, 2018

This is a superbly beautiful story set in a black community in the early 70s that deals with love, bullies, religion and racism in subtle and wonderful prose. Frannie has an intriguing relationship with her deaf brother Sean who is just one of many examples in the book of valuing differences. The Je......more

Goodreads review by Aleisha on March 18, 2011

I remember the first time I went white water rafting. From the shoreline, at the place where the boats were being put in, the river didn't amount to much. The water was smooth and the current was slow. I had no idea what I was getting myself in to, nor did I know of the ferocity of the rapids furthe......more

Goodreads review by Deborah on March 06, 2017

A really delightful little book that showed a lot of truths but in a very understated way. Each character was drawn to show a different side of human nature - apparently. For, by the end, most characters were revealed to be other than what they at first seemed. And, while I first thought it was goin......more

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