"No one understands [the] particular quagmire of adolescence so well as the quirky (to understate it) heroines of young adult author Patrice Kindl," declared Jeannette Hulick in a profile of the author in Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books Online. Hulick went on to call Kindl a "master of characterization" in the creation of a cast of young female protagonists who are "likeable, smart, witty, touching, and honest." Kindl lets her imagination roam freely in her young adult novels Owl in Love, The Woman in the Wall, Goose Chase, and Lost in the Labyrinth. These novels feature young heroines "on their fantastical but entirely believable journeys toward adulthood," according to Hulick. There is Owl from Kindl's debut novel, a shapeshifter--adolescent student by day, owl by night--spying on her favorite teacher and hunting small prey. Anna, too shy to go to school, literally crawls into the walls of...