A fourteen-year-old girl, who can transform herself into an owl at will, discovers interesting new relationships with both humans and owls when she develops a crush on her science teacher. Owl, a shape-shifting fourteen-year-old, tries to understand the connection between the science teacher she has a crush on, the starving boy she finds camping in the woods, and the inexperienced young owl she has befriended. Outstanding Quality. Birds of prey have run in fourteen-year-old Owl Tycho's family for hundreds of years. Every generation or so produces a shape-shifter, an apparently normal human being who can change into an owl at will.