The Thing with Feathers
Written by McCall Hoyle
Narrated by Nora Hunter
4/5
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About this audiobook
Emilie Day believes in playing it safe: she’s homeschooled, her best friend is her seizure dog, and she’s probably the only girl on the Outer Banks of North Carolina who can’t swim.
Then Emilie’s mom enrolls her in public school, and Emilie goes from studying at home in her pj’s to halls full of strangers. To make matters worse, Emilie is paired with starting point guard Chatham York for a major research project on Emily Dickinson. She should be ecstatic when Chatham shows interest, but she has a problem. She hasn’t told anyone about her epilepsy.
Emilie lives in fear her recently adjusted meds will fail and she’ll seize at school. Eventually, the worst happens, and she must decide whether to withdraw to safety or follow a dead poet’s advice and “dwell in possibility.”
From Golden Heart award-winning author McCall Hoyle comes The Thing with Feathers, a story of overcoming fears, forging new friendships, and finding a first love, perfect for fans of Jennifer Niven, Robyn Schneider, and Sharon M. Draper.
McCall Hoyle
McCall Hoyle writes honest YA novels about friendship, first love, and girls finding the strength to overcome great challenges. She is a high school English teacher. Her own less-than-perfect teenage experiences and those of the girls she teaches inspire many of the struggles in her books. When she’s not reading or writing, she’s spending time with her family and their odd assortment of pets—a food-obsessed beagle, a grumpy rescue cat, and a three-and-a-half-legged kitten. She has an English degree from Columbia College and a master’s degree from Georgia State University. She lives in a cottage in the woods in North Georgia where she reads and writes every day. Learn more at mcallhoyle.com.
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Reviews for The Thing with Feathers
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/51.5 stars
This book is just dull. the character development was a bit lacking and pretty forgettable one. just flavourless. There were 'not like other girls' and lots of stereotype that fairly boring. and the Insta love, lack of communication. I roll my eyes so hard.
the more the book went on the more Emilie got on my nerves. and more lies! Gosh! it's really piss me off. at this point I don't care anymore. just skim read and yet, somehow she still annoyed the hell out of me!. don't mention last ten chapters she being a total bitch! *sigh* the good thing about this book was her dog. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Emilie has been homeschooled due to her epilepsy seizures. Now, her father has passed away, and her therapist and her mother want her to register for public school so she is not at home grieving by herself so much. But Emilie doesn't want anybody at school to know about her epilepsy.