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Article: Singer, Nicky. Feather boy.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
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- May 1, 2004
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SINGER, Nicky. Feather boy. Random House, Dell Yearling. 282p. c2001. 0-440-41858-5. $4.99. J*
"Norbert is the class squit. He's thin and gangly, his arms and legs like white string loosely knotted at the elbows and knees. His head is too big for his body, and where other people have hair, he has this yellow, fluffy duck's down ... His real name isn't Norbert, it's Robert." And he's tormented endlessly by the predatory class trend setter, Jonathan Niker, who with his "curly dark hair, green eyes and a fluid, athletic body" has no idea what it's like "to look out at the world through Norbert No-Bottle's spectacles. But I have. Because I am Norbert No-Bottle." ...