Feathers Characters

Defender of the Helpless Our intrepid protagonist, Frannie, may be young (she's only in the sixth grade), but that doesn't mean that she's going to take trash from anyone—either for herself, or f...

Hippie-Dippy When the new boy shows up at Frannie's school, it is obvious that he's not going to fit in. First of all, he's a white kid attending an all-black school, and secondly, he has long hair...

Lady Magnet Sean, Frannie's older brother, is kind of an amazing dude. He's athletic, smart, a good cook, and wicked cute. When he goes out, all the teenage girls notice him and try to catch his ey...

Frannie's mama is the kind of woman who is filled with hope and believes in the beauty of the world, even though life has beaten her down more than once. Not only was one of her children born deaf,...

Samantha is Frannie's BFF since they were both little tots, and the two girls share absolutely everything. Even when Samantha hangs out with the annoyingly superior Maribel Tanks, she backs up Fran...

Every class has a kid who is trying to stir up trouble with anyone he encounters, and in Frannie's sixth grade class, that kid is Trevor. Trevor is filled with bravado and pretty much jumps down yo...

Frannie's teacher for her sixth grade year is a woman named Ms. Johnson. Ms. Johnson is, for the most part, pretty strict—after all, she has a bunch of rowdy sixth graders to keep in check, and b...

If Trevor is the school bully, then Maribel is the school snob. From the way the girl goes on about having gone to a private school and coming from a family that owns a grocery store, you'd think t...

Frannie and Sean's daddy doesn't make that many appearances in the book, because his job requires him to be on the road for several days at a time. Daddy is a truck driver, and even though it's har...

When the book opens up, Rayray is just another boy who is a part of Trevor's posse. But as the book progresses, he starts to change his mind about things—even though Trevor continues to make fun...