The Children of Crow Cove Series

Near 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. 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 crows she is watching. 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 before she knows it, the Crow-Girl has the makings before her of a new family . . .

So begins this beautiful series of novels for children, in which young people alone in the world learn complex lessons about humanity.