Nine-year old Thomas Templeton cannot believe his luck when a mysterious scout offers him a full scholarship to the secretive and ancient Animalia Magnus Academy, the only animal language school in the world. He has been selected from among thousands of children around the globe to attend a school ship traveling to uncharted islands inhabited by extraordinary creatures unknown to the rest of the world.

During a yearlong journey across the Pacific Ocean, strange things begin to happen to Thomas and soon he finds himself entangled in a web of dark secrets, a centuries old grudge and a murder plot. And before the trip ends, he makes a shocking discovery about his own family that will change his life forever.

Follow the adventures of nine-year old Thomas Templeton as he begins to discover the earth shattering truth hidden within his DNA.


About the author:

Ever since she was a child she has been fascinated by stories of exotic, and far away lands filled with secrets waiting to be discovered.
When she was five years old, her family sailed the Pacific Ocean from Australia aboard a ship toward Venezuela, stopping in Tahiti and crossing the Panama Canal. The memories of that trip continue to captivate her imagination. She grew up in Venezuela and went to college in Germany where she graduated as an architect.

Thomas Templeton and the Year of the Vivificus is her first book. With this series she hopes to inspire children to develop an interest in learning about the wonders of the natural world. She lives in Florida with her family and her two cats and during the day works as a children’s footwear designer.

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