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Maureen
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Maureen
Marks-Mendonça started storytelling in the schoolyard
at age nine. Before becoming a novelist, however, she
spent many enjoyable years working and travelling in Asia,
the Caribbean, Europe, and North America, as a diplomat
and economist. During this period, she wrote extensively
for business and government publications, hiding the storyteller
beneath the folds of facts and figures. Eventually, life
came full circle. Volunteer work with young people stirred
the fires of fiction in her again, and when she finally
stepped back into the world between dreams and visions,
Alex Springfeather was there, waiting. Legend of the
Swan Children is his story.
Maureen Marks-Mendonça and her husband live in
Ontario. She holds a double honours degree in Mathematics
and Economics from McMaster University, Ontario, and a
Master’s Degree in Operations Research from Stanford
University, California.
Visit www.swanislandhome.com,
watch a TV
interview, view the book
trailer, or join Maureen’s Friends of the Flame
Facebook group.
Website: http://www.swanislandhome.com
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Legend
of the Swan Children
by Maureen Marks-Mendonca
Macmillan
Caribbean, 2009.
ISBN 9781405099011
191 pages
Alex Springfeather, a Waspachu
of the Cougar Clan, discovers he has special powers,
but he cannot stop his world from crumbing. Soon after
the landlady, Senora Lagrima, is found dead, he and
his mother, Tia Lucia, are forced to flee their hacienda.
Before they can reach safety, Tia Lucia vanishes without
a trace, and Alex is plunged into an electrifying adventure.
His desperate search for his mother leads him from his
Spanish hometown on the Caribbean Sea to his father’s
ancestral home in the heart of the South American Rainforest.
Alex wants only to solve the mystic’s riddle and
save his mother’s life, but the Guardians of the
Legend have other plans for him.
Legend of the Swan Children is one of six
novels recently published by Macmillan as part of their
new Island Fiction (IF) Series for teens and tweens.
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