The OtherThe Other

Ava was born with wings. No one called them that until she was two yearsold. She hides her wings under a special device her father made for her.She never takes off her backpack at school. No one knows her secret, not even her best friend Theo, whowas born with two different-colored eyes. The doctor told Ava that shecan choose to have the wings removed when she turns sixteen. The big day arrives, and she can't decide what to do. Without her wings,Ava thinks she can be like everybody else. But is that what she really wants? When Ava makes a new friend at school,she begins to see things--and herself--in new ways. Lucy offers herfriendship and exquisite drawings of wings. Lucy makes Ava think. The Other asks us to consider whatit means to be different and what it means to accept the unique parts of ourselves.