Caroline Crow Salmon
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In this, the second novel in the Mavis series, Mavis is called to the Goldfields of the Western Australian outback after a cry of help from a desperate Pelican. As his body morphs alternately from bird to human he tells Mavis that the birds in the inland migratory breeding grounds are mysteriously disappearing. After having been trained by her grandmother to magnify sight like the eagle, fly as fast as the Peregrine Falcon, mimic any sound like the...
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Mavis is a normal teenager but with a unique connection with birds. On her 13th birthday, her grandmother reveals that like each female in the generations before Mavis, it is her destiny to develop the abilities of the birds she loves. To a shocked Mavis, Grandma explains that these abilities were given to a descendant back in the 1500's for her bravery, by an Incan chief whose life she saved when the Spanish Conquistadors were invading and plundering...