Product Description

Part bird of prey, part teenage girl in love, and now part stalker, Owl Tycho's life is complicated. It becomes even more so when an inept new shape-shifter appears on the scene. Funny, smart, and supernatural, Owl is a young woman worth getting to know.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #145941 in Books
• Published on: 2004-05-10
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .56" h x 5.04" w x 7.18" l, .39 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

From Publishers Weekly
This first novel about a shape-shifting teenager was praised in a starred review by PW as "tautly plotted and touching." Ages 12-up.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From AudioFile
Perch outside in the cold night air with Owl as she peers through the window at her science teacher, her love, Mr. Lindstrom, sleeping in his Fruit of the Looms in a cozy bed. Hunt field mice with her in the remaining minutes before dawn, until, exhausted, she transforms into her human shape and sleeps under the watchful eyes of her knowing parents. Alyssa Bresnahan delivers the first-person narration in tremulous whispers, righteous declarations and frenzied terror. Owl's friend, Dawn, forthright and bold; Mr. Lindstrom, perplexed and defeated; and the innocent Howl, a "wereowl" long-confined as a lunatic, speak in their own distinct voices. Middle-schoolers will love this sophisticated, romantic tale. T.B (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine

From Kirkus Reviews
Owl, 14, is charmingly offbeat; she hangs out at night in a tree near the home of her one love--science teacher Mr. Lindstrom. What makes her nocturnal vigils relatively easy is that she's a ``wereowl'' whose nightly transformation ruffles her feathers no more than does her diet of rodents. Wereowls run in the family, so Owl is comfortable with her identity, though the efforts demanded by her one-sided love are wearing her a bit ragged. When she observes a boy lurking near Mr. Lindstrom's home, the stage is set for shedding the schoolgirl crush for a more transcendent romance. Owl's perspective is no birdbrained view; readers are soon solidly immersed in her wild, wise, and witty ways. Lofty phrasing, wry self-awareness, and passionate musings frame and fill a delightful first-person narration. Owl's quaint parents play several scenes for humor and have foibles enough to complete Owl's typical teenage alienation. The tidying up at the end is a little overneat and abbreviated; otherwise, an unusually strong and original first novel. (Fiction. 10+) -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.