Bibliograph

Feathers., Jacqueline Woodson

Type

Label

Feathers., Jacqueline Woodson

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Intended audience

710, Lexile4.4, ATOS Level

resource.interestGradeLevel

MG+/Upper middle grades (6th-12th)

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Feathers.

Nature of contents

dictionaries

resource.readingGradeLevel

Text Difficulty 3

Responsibility statement

Jacqueline Woodson

Summary

Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature 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 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

Target audience

juvenile

Classification

Creator