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Mythology of the Iliad and the Odyssey
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Mythology of the Iliad and the Odyssey

Follow Odysseus as he hides in the Trojan horse and retakes Troy, fights the Cyclops, or fights enslavement by the sorceress Circe. In MYTHOLOGY OF THE ILIAD AND THE ODYSSEY, author Karen Bornemann Spies details the heroic adventures in both the Iliad and the Odyssey, and includes informative interpretation and expert commentary, as well as a Question and Answer section. This book is developed from THE ILIAD AND THE ODYSSEY IN GREEK MYTHOLOGY to allow republication of the original text into ebook, paperback, and trade editions.
 
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Tags: ILIAD, ODYSSEY, Iliad, Odyssey, fights
First Term at Malory Towers
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First Term at Malory Towers

New girls in school fiction are generally one of two types. The first type (the O'Sullivan Twins, Elizabeth Allen) do not want to go to school and are dragged there kicking and screaming, to cause as much havoc as possible before realizing how wonderful the school is and becoming model citizens. The second type are keen to get to school, having read stories of pillow fights and midnight feasts, and are of a sensible, jolly, glowing-cheeked disposition which means they will settle down immediately.
 
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Tags: school, fights, midnight, sensible, pillow
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)

Mindy Kaling has lived many lives: the obedient child of immigrant professionals, a timid chubster afraid of her own bike, a Ben Affleck–impersonating Off-Broadway performer and playwright, and, finally, a comedy writer and actress prone to starting fights with her friends and coworkers with the sentence “Can I just say one last thing about this, and then I swear I’ll shut up about it?”  
 
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Tags: about, friends, coworkers, fights, starting, Everyone, Other, Concerns, Hanging
The Baby Giant
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THE BABY GIANTTHE BABY GIANT

A new version of a favourite Finn MacCool story

ANCIENT IRISH LEGEND
Finn. the Irish Giant. fights bullies.
The Scottish Giant is a big bully.
He's strong and mean.
Finn and his wife make a very clever plan!

 
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Tags: GIANT, story, MacCool, favourite, version, Giant, bullies, fights, Scottish, bully
Journeys to the Edge - In the Footsteps of an Anthropologist
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Journeys to the Edge - In the Footsteps of an AnthropologistJourneys to the Edge - In the Footsteps of an Anthropologist

In this fascinating and vivid account, Peter M. Gardner takes us along with him on his anthropological field research trips. Usually, the author’s family is there, too, either with him in the field or somewhere nearby. Family adventures are part of it all. Travel into the unknown can be terrifying yet stimulating, and Gardner describes his own adventures, sharing medical and travel emergencies, magical fights, natural dangers, playful friends, and satisfying scientific discoveries.
 
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Tags: field, Gardner, adventures, fights, emergencies, Journeys, Anthropologist