num_pages: 160
description: A timeless novel about the kindness of strangersNear a little cove where a brook runs out to the sea live a girl and her grandmother. All alone with no neighbors at all, the two lead a peaceful existence. They have a house, dine on sea kale and mussels and sand snails, and build fires from driftwood. But the grandmother is very old. When the time comes that the girl must bury the woman, she makes up a funeral song about the birds she is watching: Two crows never fly alone, and death is never, ever past. The next day the same crows seem to beckon her, and so the Crow-Girl begins her journey, one in which she will meet people both warm and cold, hurt and hurtful. And the Crow-Girl, before she knows it, has the makings before her of a new family . . .This lyrical story, with its characters' moments of darkness always overcome through incredible humanity, introduces a strong new voice for American readers.
language: English
title: The Crow-Girl: The Children of Crow Cove
titlecomplete: The Crow-Girl: The Children of Crow Cove (The Children of Crow Cove Series, 1)
genres: Juvenile, International, Fiction, Realistic Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Danish, Historical Fiction, Middle Grade, Cultural
ratings_count: 799
series: The Children of Crow Cove
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Batchelder Award, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Beacon of Freedom Award
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux