“The Thing with Feather’s” touches on several topics, three of which have current awareness months. “As an English teacher I work with girls every day who look so perfect, happy and healthy on the outside, but then you get to know them and realize that all of them - just like us as adults - are struggling with something on the inside,” Hoyle said. Thus, the charcter Emilie Day was created. “I was interested in the unconditional love between a girl and her dog, and that led to a story idea.” I was fascinated by seizure alert dogs especially, because that can’t be trained,” Hoyle said. I did a lot of dog training and researching on the relationship between service dogs and their handlers. I owned a golden retriever who was bred to be a service dog. “The main character has epilepsy, and her seizure alert dog is a very important character in the book. Eventually, the worst happens, and she must decide whether to withdraw to safety or stick it out. The character lives in fear her newly adjusted medications will fail and she’ll seize at school.
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