The Thing with Feathers by McCall Hoyle
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.”
- File Name:the-thing-with-feathers-by-mccall-hoyle.epub
- Original Title:The Thing with Feathers
- Creator:McCall Hoyle
- Language:en
- Identifier:9780310758303
- Publisher:Blink
- Date:2017-07-26
- File Size:567.546 KB
Table of Content
- 1. Praise for The Thing with Feathers
- 2. Contents
- 3. Chapter One: I’m Nobody! Who are you?
- 4. Chapter Two: I hide myself within my flower . . .
- 5. Chapter Three: . . . I tasted life. It was a vast morsel.
- 6. Chapter Four: The Sky is low—the Clouds are mean.
- 7. Chapter Five: Come slowly—Eden!
- 8. Chapter Six: It’s such a little thing to weep—
- 9. Chapter Seven: Saying nothing . . . sometimes says the Most.
- 10. Chapter Eight: Our journey had advanced—
- 11. Chapter Nine: Finite—to fail, but infinite to Venture—
- 12. Chapter Ten: The Soul selects her own Society . . .
- 13. Chapter Eleven: Adrift! A little boat adrift!
- 14. Chapter Twelve: The Brain—is wider than the Sky—
- 15. Chapter Thirteen: An awful Tempest mashed the air—
- 16. Chapter Fourteen: Much Madness is divinest Sense—
- 17. Chapter Fifteen: The Heart asks Pleasure—first—And then—Excuse from Pain—
- 18. Chapter Sixteen: I breathed enough to take the Trick—
- 19. Chapter Seventeen: Are Friends Delight or Pain?
- 20. Chapter Eighteen: My friends are my “estate.”
- 21. Chapter Nineteen: My River runs to thee—
- 22. Chapter Twenty: We never know how high we are Till we are called to rise.
- 23. Chapter Twenty-One: That it will never come again Is what makes life sweet.
- 24. Chapter Twenty-Two: Will there really be a “Morning”?
- 25. Chapter Twenty-Three: Each Life Converges to some Centre—
- 26. Chapter Twenty-Four: For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay . . .
- 27. Chapter Twenty-Five: Afraid! Of whom am I afraid?
- 28. Chapter Twenty-Six: Silence is all we dread.
- 29. Chapter Twenty-Seven: Tell all the truth but tell it slant—
- 30. Chapter Twenty-Eight: I should not dare to leave my friend . . .
- 31. Chapter Twenty-Nine: My Cocoon tightens—Colors teaze—I’m feeling for the Air—
- 32. Chapter Thirty: Success is counted sweetest By those who ne’er succeed.
- 33. Chapter Thirty-One: I’ll tell you how the Sun rose—A Ribbon at a time—
- 34. Chapter Thirty-Two: Each that we lose takes part of us . . .
- 35. Chapter Thirty-Three: Drowning is not so pitiful As the attempt to rise.
- 36. Chapter Thirty-Four: It was not Death, for I stood up . . .
- 37. Chapter Thirty-Five: A Wounded Deer—leaps highest—
- 38. Chapter Thirty-Six: A charm invests a face—
- 39. Chapter Thirty-Seven: Triumph—may be of several kinds—
- 40. Chapter Thirty-Eight: I read my sentence—steadily—
- 41. Acknowledgments
- 42. The Thing with Feathers Discussion Questions
- 43. About the Author
McCall Hoyle
