She wrote the adult books Red at the Bone, a New York Times bestseller, and Another Brooklyn, a 2016 National Book Award finalist. Born in Columbus, Ohio, Jacqueline grew up in Greenville, South Carolina, and Brooklyn, New York, and graduated from college with a B.A.

She received the 2014 National Book Award for her New York Times bestselling memoir Brown Girl Dreaming, which was also a recipient of the Coretta Scott King Award, a Newbery Honor, the NAACP Image Award, and a Sibert Honor. She was the 2018–2019 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, and in 2015, she was named the Young People’s Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation. Jacqueline Woodson (the recipient of a 2020 MacArthur Fellowship, the 2020 Hans Christian Andersen Award, the 2018 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, and the 2018 Children’s Literature Legacy Award. '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.

St Joseph's University (Brooklyn Voices Series)Ī beautiful and moving novel from a three-time Newbery Honor-winning author.

Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson