What is the author's style in Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson?

The title of Jacqueline Woodson's Feathers, is taken from the Emily Dickinson poem, "Hope." The first stanza starts with the line, "Hope is the thing with feathers." The narrator of the story is Frannie who is a sixth-grader at Price School. Frannie and her class study the Dickinson poem. Frannie's brother, Sean, tells her the line is a metaphor for hope. Another boy in the class, Trevor, thinks that Dickinson wanted to fly away when she wrote that line. Trevor is a troubled boy who would like to fly away from his life.