A Newbery Honor winner takes readers on a journey into a young girls heart and reveals the pain and joy of learning to look beneath the surface in this new novel. aHope is the thing with feathersa starts the poem Frannie is reading in school. Frannie hasnat thought much about hope. There are so many other things to think about. Each day, her friend Samantha seems a bit more aholy.a There is a new boy in class everyone is calling the Jesus Boy. And although the new boy looks like a white kid, he says heas not white. Who is he? During a winter full of surprises, good and bad, Frannie starts seeing a lot of things in a new lightaher brother Seanas deafness, her motheras fear, the class bullyas anger, her best friendas faith and her own desire for athe thing with feathers.a Jacqueline Woodson once again takes readers on a journey into a young girlas heart and reveals the pain and the joy of learning to look beneath the surface.