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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.
118 pages, Hardcover
First published March 1, 2007
It was 1970's, in a community of African American, comes a new white boy. Because he is white, people call him 'Jesus boy'. The story discusses racism in reverse and prejudices towards the handicap. There's also instances that issue like bullying been brought up. In the whole messes going on, the author wants to show that hope is still there if people understand; if people believe. There is also some kind of argument from two different standpoints about "believing". However, since I went in with high hope, I'm not totally satisfied because everything was not fully discussed. There's no conclusion. Everything was touch but not dive in deep enough. Tho, there is one scene that funny enough for me to give an extra half star.