Emilie Day believes in playing it safe: sheโs homeschooled, her best friend is her seizure dog, and sheโs probably the only girl on the Outer Banks of North Carolina who canโt swim.
Then Emilieโs mom enrolls her in public school, and Emilie goes from studying at home in her pjโs 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 hasnโt told anyone about her epilepsy.
Emilie lives in fear her recently adjusted meds will fail and sheโll seize at school. Eventually, the worst happens, and she must decide whether to withdraw to safety or follow a dead poetโs advice and โdwell in possibility.โ
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 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 sheโs not reading or writing, sheโs spending time with her family and their odd assortment of petsโa 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 masterโs 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.