A beautiful, extraordinary, first novel for children from a unique storyteller. Growing up on a Highland farm in a totally white community, 11-year-old 'Maybe' MacPherson hates her mixed-race roots: she is half Celtic and half Nigerian lbo. But everything changes when her beloved father is killed in a car accident. Faced with running the farm herself and coping with her grief-stricken mother, Maybe needs all her strength to fight the local bullies - and the farm's unscrupulous owners, who want to sell the farm to a supermarket chain. Suddenly, at harvest time, Strawgirl enters Maybe's life - an extraordinary, magical girl made from straw who will help Maybe not only to discover who she really is, but also the courage that lies within her.
- ISBN10 0333900987
- ISBN13 9780333900987
- Publish Date 11 October 2002
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 June 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Pan Macmillan
- Imprint Macmillan Children's Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 272
- Language English