Lily is a shy girl with low self esteem that gets harassed by the popular girls at school and is ignored by everyone else. After discovering that her local woodland harbours some hungry crows, she gets into a routine of feeding them everyday. She teaches the crows to come to her on command and hatches a plan to scare her classmates at the Halloween party and reinvent herself as Crow Girl.
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