From Golden Heart award-winning author McCall Hoyle comes The Thing with Feathers, the story of sixteen-year-old Emilie Day, an epileptic teen leaving her safe, homeschooled life for high school on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. For the first time, Emilie must navigate classes, cliques, and crushes, all the while keeping her epilepsy a secret.

“[Readers] will swoon over the dreamy Chatham and root for Emilie to come out of her shell.” —Kirkus Reviews

Emilie Day believes in playing it safe: shes homeschooled, her best friend is her seizure dog, and shes probably the only girl on the Outer Banks of North Carolina who cant swim.

Then Emilies mom enrolls her in public school, and Emilie goes from studying at home in her pjs 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 thrilled when Chatham shows interest, but she has a problem. She hasnt told anyone about her epilepsy.

Emilie lives in fear her recently adjusted meds will fail and shell seize at school. Eventually, the worst happens, and she must decide whether to withdraw to safety or follow a dead poets advice and “dwell in possibility.”

“Filled with poignancy, sparkling wit, and Southern charm, The Thing with Feathers made my heart absolutely soar! Its everything I love in a YA contemporary.” —Darcy Woods, award-winning author of Summer of Supernovas