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Feather Boy
Published: 2017
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Robert Nobel, the school pariah, triumphs over his own fears and the school bully, in this extraordinary tale of self-empowerment, legend and death. Robert is a boy who can do anything - or so old Edith Sorrel at the nursing home tells him. Robert doesn't think so, knowing as he does that he is the school geek. But something compels him to do what Edith asks - to visit old Chance House, where a boy once fell to his death from the top floor flat, to confront his fears and find some answers. Niker the bully thinks this is a great laugh. He challenges Robert to spend the night at Chance House with him - but there the balance of power changes, and it is Robert who proves to be the stronger. Niker feels threatened by the change - and when he finds out Robert's secret obsession, to make the dying Edith Sorrel a coat of feathers like in the old legend of the Firebird, he knows just how to wrest his old power back. But just how important is the coat of feathers? Could it really save Edith's life?
This book is the winner of numerous awards
This book features in the following series: Cascades Series, Essential Modern Classics .
This book was published in 2017 by HarperCollins Publishers .
Nicky Singer is an author and playwright. She has written a number of books for children and adults, across fiction and non-fiction. Her first children's novel Feather Boy won the Blue Peter 'Book of the Year' Award, was adapted for TV (winning a BAFTA for Best Children's Drama) and commissioned by the National Theatre as a musical.
Blue Peter Awards
Branford Boase Award
Media Ties in literature
Bullying in literature
Physical And Emotional Abuse in literature
Friendship in literature
This book is in the following series:
Essential Modern Classics
The "Essential Modern Classics" series is a collection of children's literature published by Puffin Books, designed to introduce young readers to significant works of modern literature. The series features a selection of beloved stories that have become classics in their own right and includes a range of genres, from fantasy and adventure to contemporary fiction. The books are tailored for children aged 8 and up, making them suitable for middle-grade readers and explore themes such as friendship, courage, family, adventure, and self-discovery.
This book has been nominated for the following award:
Blue Peter Book Award - Book I Couldn'T Put Down Prize
This book was recognised in the Book i Couldn'T Put down Prize category by the Blue Peter Book Award. The Blue Peter Book Awards are a set of literary awards for children's books conferred by the BBC television programme Blue Peter. They were inaugurated in 2000 for books published in 1999. The Awards have been managed by reading charity, Booktrust, since 2006.
"Inventive, original and full of surprises, it's the sort of dazzling debut novel that most publishers would fall over themselves to snap up..." T2 "Feather Boy is the most intelligent book for youngsters I've read for a very long time. Every 12-year-old will see a bit of themself in Robert and won't be able to put this book down until Feather Boy's emotional, thought-provoking climax. Fabulous." Funday Times "Feather Boy is more than just a story about Bullying. It's bigger than that. It's about finding your voice, shouting from the rooftops about something you believe in, refusing to back down, never giving up. It's enormously uplifting." John McLay "Feather Boy is simply fabulous... an emotionally intense suspense novel of the highest order" Michael Thorn, Achuka
