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Owl is a wereowl-- girl by day, owl by night. She perches on a tree outside of her science teacher's house and pines for him. Her witch parents are worried, because Owl isn't doing enough hunting. (what a great detail-- her parents are like any concerned parents anywhere, except their lives don't really belong to 20th century America). Kids sometimes tease Owl because they rarely see her eat (she's been known to bring mouse sandwiches to school, though).

Owl finally does make a friend, and this both enriches and complicates her life. The book wraps itself up delightfully-- Owl gets over her crush in a satisfying and original way (hint: the science teacher has a tragic secret involving a child...) and Owl learns she can trust her friend with her secret.

The book's originality and magic had me laughing and marvelling, but the story of a misfit-- a girl with talents that both make her interesting and set her apart-- is one that lots of kids can relate to. Heck, lots of adults. This book is full of charm and insight and is a terrific read.


really really good   August 30, 2002
this was a great book. i picked it up after reading the the synpois on the inside cover and it intreigued me. anyway after reading i could not put it down and while i was not reading i was think about owl, dawn and the others.


A wereowl's tale   July 21, 2002
An appropriate companion to Annette Curtis Klause's "Blood and Chocolate" is Kindle's tale about a teen wereowl, a clever and funny, yet surprisingly moral tale about acceptance of the other. As with Klause, Kindl avoids "generation gap" cliches, and focuses instead on the desire to prove one's maturity by literally leaving the nest. Without a sermon in sight, Kindle offers in this seemingly simple fairy tale a text flush with symbolism about the challenges of individual "diversity," and the responsibilities of the individual, in turn, to family and society.


This book was great!!!   April 13, 2002
I loved this book.But i most loved the ending which is sweet and brings all of it together.I think the teacher crush was a little strange but...all in all i liked this book...


Original. Interesting. Insightful. What more could you want?   June 3, 2001
Owl is different. Her name is strange, her facial shape is strange, her food is strange (i mean, it consists of mice and rodents!) She's just plain different. And as much as she tries to hide it, either by secretly squeezing mice into her sandwiches or by making no contact with regular human children, she knows she is a wereowl, not human. A shape shifter. Different. And what makes it all worse is that she's in love. That's the real way to complicate a young adolescent's life still more, and Owl for one takes hers very seriously. Her infatuated crush may seem a little stange to readers, but Owl is plainly smitten with her thirty-something-year-old science teacher, Mr. Linstrom. And to tie the plot through, Owl finds that there is a strange lunatic boy hanging around her darling Mr. Linstrom's house. And the plot thickens.

Overall, Owl's uncanny strangeness, cool descriptions, and overall imaginative plot, you'll find this book and interesting read, despite the fact that the book is cute, fun, and interesting, rather than interllectually stimulating.