Emilie’s bargain with them is that after three months she can come back to her cocoon at home. Her mother and counselor feel the time has come for her to broaden her social and emotional connections and since she has not had a seizure in three months, it is time for public school. In fact, she sees it as “this girl’s worst punishment.” But the root of her opposition to school is that she is terrified of having her deepest secret exposed – Emilie has epilepsy and could go into a seizure at any time. She is still in grief from the death of her father from cancer and has no desire to step into the high school world, where everyone seems to have a perfect life. She has been comfortably home schooled at her house at the Outer Banks of North Carolina with her books and her dog Hitch.
As the story begins, she is angry with her mother for forcing her to attend public school for the first time in her life. Moments like these when students get excited about a book are what make my job as a media specialist rewarding!įeathers is filled with metaphors and other figurative language that capture the thoughts and emotions of Emilie, the teenage heroine of this YA novel. The student was reading an advance copy of The Thing with Feathers, the debut novel by McCall Hoyle, a high school English teacher from Gainesville, Georgia. I overheard this exclamation from an 8th grade girl sitting on the couch in my middle school library one morning.
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