Feather in the Wind

By Norma Johnston

After moving to her ancestral home in northern New Jersey, fourteen-year-old Becca discovers a Native American ghost and a startling family secret. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761450637
• ISBN13: 9780761450634
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Marshall Cavendish Corp/Ccb
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 1.0" x 6.0"
• Age Range: 10 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 9

Customer Reviews

Underrated book; good read

I liked this book and didn't find the PC-ness overwhelming, frankly. Norma Johnston is all about exploring the way America lives and has lived, and this book is supposed to be a capsule of Americana at the turn of the 21st century. I don't think the religious or ethnic composition of the heroine's friends is at all unusual (or jarring or even noteworthy, actually) for modern times. The mystic, otherworldliness of the ghost story surely isn't everyone's cup of tea, but I thought it was well done, and very touching. While this isn't Norma Johnston's very best work, and I personally like her historical novels better (Of Time and of Seasons, the Keeping Days stories), I think it is one of her better contemporaries. I'm glad to have read it.