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For Immediate Release: September 1, 2016<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Reader’s Favorite recognizes \u201cNelson Telson \u2013 The Story of a True Blue Blood\u201d by Heidi Mayo with a gold medal in its 2016 international book award contest.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n The 2016 Readers’ Favorite International Book Award Contest featured thousands of contestants from over a dozen countries.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Readers’ Favorite has become the fastest growing book review and award contest site on the Internet. They have earned the respect of renowned publishers like Random House, Simon & Schuster, and Harper Collins, and have received the \u201cBest Websites for Authors\u201d and \u201cHonoring Excellence\u201d awards from the Association of Independent Authors. They are also fully accredited by the BBB (A+ rating), which is a rarity among Book Review and Book Award Contest companies.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n In addition to reviewing for some of the biggest names in the literary industry, as well as the first time independent author, they host a respected award contest which features entries from new authors to NYT best-sellers, as well as celebrities like Jim Carrey and Henry Winkler.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \u201cReaders\u2019 Favorite is proud to announce that “Nelson Telson; The Story of a True Blue Blood” by Heidi Mayo is a Gold Medal Winner in the Children – Grade 4th-6th category in our 2016 International Book Award Contest.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n A must-read for humans of all ages, this middle grade novel grows up before your very eyes. Painfully shy and lonely, eleven-year-old Mariah Miller hates being a human; she\u2019d rather be an animal so she wouldn\u2019t have to go to school and deal with mean old Mrs. Tarbox and her nasty cousin Travis who has invaded her life. Enchantment abounds when she finds a magic spearhead on the beach that allows her to talk to a wise old horseshoe crab and a host of other animals. Her father becomes seriously ill, and throughout her trials in the real world, she is often surprised by the unpredictable power of the spearhead. As she travels through time and space, and listens to the wisdom of creatures and people, Mariah makes leaps in her own personal growth, discovers the interdependence of all living things, learns how perspective creates reality, and what it really means to be human.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Heidi Mayo lives in Plymouth, MA where she makes art and teaches fine art to students of all ages. Her love of the local shoreline and the natural world that sustains us is the inspiration for \u201cNelson Telson.\u201d Heidi and some learned colleagues are currently developing a spiral, middle school curriculum, \u201cTeaching Nelson Telson\u201d using the novel as a springboard for a myriad of fun, creative thinking activities.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \u201cNelson Telson is a well-written and wise story that looks beneath our views of the everyday and finds a perceptive truth and beauty about life and relationships. And there is something very special about a book that can convey that to children at the same time as telling a good and entertaining story. Recommended”\u00a0Hilary Hawkes\u00a0for\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Readers’ Favorite Nelson Telson \u2013 The Story of a True Blue Blood For Immediate Release: September 1, 2016 Reader’s Favorite recognizes \u201cNelson Telson \u2013 The Story of a True Blue Blood\u201d by Heidi Mayo with a gold medal in its 2016 international book award contest. 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