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by Jacqueline Woodson (Author) (edit contributors)

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Oprah's Book Club Kids Reading List selection "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... read more

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  • “"It frees him," he said. "All that stuff that makes him mad and mean and ugly leaves him when he does stuff to other people.""Until the next time," I said. "Then it all just comes right back."The sun went behind some clouds and the wind picked up. I shivered."But maybe the next time, it'll be a little bit less and a little bit less and a little bit less, until finally it's all gone."”
    Jesus Boy and Frannie
  • “Maybe he is. Maybe there's a little bit of Jesus inside all of us. Maybe Jesus is that something good or something sad or something...something that stays with us and makes us do stuff like help Trevor up even though he's busy cursing us out. Or maybe......maybe Jesus is just that thing you were feeling when Jesus Boy first got here, Samantha. Maybe Jesus is the hope you were feeling.”
    Frannie
  • “In the acknowledgments section, at the back of the book, the author writes....With so much love and thanks to Nancy Paulsen, who has always seen the book inside the mess that is the early draft.”
    author - Jacqueline Woodson
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  • Seems kids on this side of the highway were always trying to figure out ways to fly and run and cross over things and . . . get free or something.
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  • Ms. Johnson says each day holds its own memory—its own moments that we can write about later. She says we should always look for the moments and some of them might be perfect, filled with light and hope and laughter. Moments that stay with us forever and ever. Amen.
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  • Or maybe . . . maybe Jesus is just that thing you had when the Jesus Boy first got here, Samantha. Maybe Jesus is the hope that you were feeling.”
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  • And the hurting proved to all of us that the Jesus Boy was just a boy. A white-black boy. A human boy all complicated and crazy as the rest of us.
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  • I guess that’s because you have to listen real hard and most people don’t want to spend a lot of energy on listening to people.
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  • Hope is the thing with feathers. After Ms. Johnson had
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  • was no good when people said things like you deaf or something. My brother was deaf and deaf was something.
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  • Each moment, I am thinking, is a thing with feathers.
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  • down—Hope is the thing with feathers—because I had loved the sound of it.
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  • Some days, eleven felt like a whole long lifetime. All heavy like that.
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  • Black Panthers: Political organization that, in the 60's and 70's fought for freedom for the black people in American that were being abused.

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His coming into our classroom that morning was the only new thing.

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  1. Jacqueline Woodson (Author)

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Page Count: 144

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