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When Tephra’s parents are killed, she is taken in by a foster family. Nothing unusual about that, except that Tephra is a baby dragon and her new family… are Rocs – giant birds.

This heart-warming story for children of all ages deals with a small foundling dragon  adrift in the world who finds a home with an unlikely family. It is perfect for any fantasy lover and especially those who are called Dragon-friend. As the author says in the introduction:

Once upon a time, there was…

No, that introduction won’t work for this story. There aren’t any fairies in here. Sure, there are
dragons (which are big, flying lizards that breathe fire) and there are rocs (which are birds so enormous they can pick up a whole cow and eat it, too). There are even those mythical creaturescalled humans (which are social, home-building mammals), but there are no fairies. This is also the story of a family. Or is it two families? Or maybe three. … You know, it might even be a story about only a single person, and about how she fits into the lives of those around
her. Oh, well, I can’t make up my mind, so you’ll just have to decide for yourself what sort of story this is. But however you decide, remember one thing: a family is what you make it.

Read an Excerpt:

Stork shuffled his talons impatiently on the side of the nest as he felt precious time slipping away from him. The abandoned roc eggs were not his only duty this day, simply the most urgent. But he could not force a mother to abandon her babies completely against her will – it went against the Code of the Nest, and a stork would never violate the Code.

He did not have to wait long. Rocky came racing back at full speed, chased closely by his children. When Rocky saw they had such an esteemed visitor he tried to slow his approach a little bit, but the draft sent up by his braking blew the stork straight off the nest and tumbled him beak over talons into the stream.

“Rocky!” Quartz cried in embarrassment.

“Sorry,” he muttered to them both.

The rest of the feathered children landed in the nest – barely; they had grown so much that they could not all fit properly anymore – and they were all chattering with excitement over their flight, and what they had hunted, and what they had learned, and who was that tiny strange-looking white bird they had seen, and where had he gone, and what did he want? Then Tephra caught up, landed in their midst, and sent Arkose tumbling out of the nest and into the stream, promptly soaking the stork all over again and sending the other young ones into gales of laughter.

Seeing how crowded the nest had become, the dripping stork looked at Quartz. “Past time,” he said pointedly.

Quartz looked at the nest, then at Rocky. “Dear,” she said, “Stork would like to have a private conversa-”

“By the Great Stork!” Stork shrieked.

“What?” Rocky said, looking all around for the source of the danger.

Stork looked at Rocky as if he were daft, then looked back at the nest. He could not believe his eyes: there, in the midst of these fine young fledglings, stood a dragon!

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