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Comment by Margot Finke on 3/16/2012 at 4:04 PM:
This coming of age adventure is set in the Aussie outback. A chatty cockatoo is Taconi's best friend and offers many funny one-liners.
Comment by Margot Finke on 11/16/2011 at 4:24 PM:
Comment by Margot Finke on 11/16/2011 at 4:11 PM:
margot reads a little from the beginning of her young teen book taconi and claude - double trouble. set in the aussie outback, it is an adventure for boys and tomboys.

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Author Margot Finke reads the first few pages of "Taconi and Claude - Double Trouble," her mid-grade adventure set in the Aussie outback around 1950. A coming of age story involving a young aboriginal boy and a chatty cockatoo named Claude. Dreamtime Spirits have plans for Taconi, as does his dad. His upcoming man ceremony, a crazed emu, nippy green ants and a hunt for bush meat, all add to Ta... More
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Added by: Margot Finke on 11/16/2011
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Title: Taconi & Claude: Double Trouble
Publisher: Guardian Angel Publishing, Inc.
Author: Margot E Finke
All Ages
Date published: 1/15/2011
Picture About Margot Finke: G’day, mate, my name’s Margot Finke. I’m an Aussie who writes books for children. I flew the Down-under coop years ago, and have lived in Oregon with my American husband and three children for m... more
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