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|  | | Talon, come fly with me (Book 1)
It's the firs book of a children's adventure series, called "Talon"
p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal">font size="3">i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU">Talon: Come Fly With Me,/span>/i>span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU"> is about the life of nine-year-old Matica. Matica lives in a remote village on a dry plateau in the Andes of Peru. She moved here with her Australian missionary and schoolteacher parents when she was five years old. Ever since she could remember she faced cruel rejection because of the growth handicap that traps her | |  | | Talon, Connected (Book 4)
Children’s, YA, Teens, Parents, Fiction, adventure, rejection, inspiration, heart-warming, heartbreak, growth-impediment, friendship, friends, family, dreams, emotions, difficulties, flying, bird, disability,
Her father recovered slowly as her 11th birthday is coming up. Then the things she is about to encounter proves she is very brave.
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:107%">Events take a sudden turn when she is invited to see Elcano, the very old and frail father of the village elder Pajaro. Not once, but three times he summons her. She is afraid of him, but he fascinates her. He calls her ‘his daughter he never had.’ o:p>/o:p>
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:107%">Why? The amazing things he is about to | |  | | Talon, Encounter (Book 5)
With them, she found herself. With them, she can live. With them, she has a life.
FINALIST /b>with Book Excellence Award 2018
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:107%">a name="_Hlk527451556">FINALIST /b>/a>in the 2018 IAN Book of the Year Awards in “Young Adult.” (The silver one, not gold from last year.)o:p>/o:p>
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:107%">Nominee /b>by GLOBAL EBOOK AWARDS 2018 o:p>/o:p>
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:107%">Medallist Winner/b> | |  | | Talon, flight for life (Book 3)
Will they be safe as they travel?
p class="MsoNormal">Will they be safe as they travel? What about the dangerous animals they could encounter? Will Matica see her condors on her trip? o:p>/o:p>
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It's amazing how you are drawn into the beauty and dangers of the rain forest, as Matica and her father travel to the city and villages in Peru. br />
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You may be awed by the enchanting plants and creature inhabitants, and fearfully apprehensive of the poisonous insects and tr | |  | | Talon, on the wing (book 2)
Matica is speaking:
I see myself as a girl that likes to overcome all obstacles, all problems and all difficulties how bad they maybe, because I found out in my young life that I can overcome them, if I set my mind to it. I succeeded and so can you. Don’t stick your head in the sand, face your difficulties, face your affliction. Look for a condor as I have done, I don’t mean a real condor like me, but something you can identify yourself with, relay to it, love to do or like to be.
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:107%">span class="a-size-base">Talon, on the Wing is the second book of the Talon series, and it is also the place where an incredible thing happens: the predicament of the main character—her fate to remain small in size—turns out to be her most valuable gift, as it allows her to soar on the | |  | | Talon, Windsong (book 6)
a. The meaning of life
b. The beauty of creation
c. The reality of living in the natural environment
d. The benefits of kindness and obeying basic rules
e. How to reason well and find answers to problems
f. Parenting and parenthood
g. Psychological and physiological development of group of people in a geographical area
More thrilling adventures with Matica and Talon.
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p class="MsoNormal">The poachers are gone, and the birds are safe. Now Matica is becoming anxious thinking of the upcoming holiday to Australia - she does not want to go or leave her birds. But Talon, understanding her misery, helps to ease her mind. o:p>/o:p>
p class="MsoNormal">With distractions all sides, Matica soon finds herself involved in current happenings - the letting go of Elcano's ashes from the top of the Andes, and near tragedy of Crayn falling while climbing up the mount |
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