Crow Girl

Lily is an outsider, ignored and bullied at school and unable to talk to her well-meaning but ineffective mother at home. The only place she feels safe is the Wakeless Woods where she befriends the crows which live there. This strange relationship helps her to find the confidence to reinvent herself.

Kate Cann provides an original take on the dilemmas of teenage school life in this short novel of just 70 pages, published by Barrington Stoke, who specialise in books for struggling and dyslexic readers. Lily is a character who is easy to identify with, and the themes of self-worth and standing up in the face of fear make this an uncomplicated but effective story