The Children’s Homer

The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy
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Perfect for fans of Percy Jackson and the Olympians! From the Newbery Honorwinning author of The Golden Fleece comes a middle grade volume adapting the classic epic poems The Iliad and The Odyssey into more accessible prose, featuring black-and-white illustrations throughout.

When Telemachus was only a boy, King Agamemnon commanded his father, Odysseus, to join the Greeks in their war against Troy. Now, years later, Telemachus is a man, and his father still has not returned. To bring his father homeor at least learn of his fateTelemachus embarks on a journey of his own.

As he follows in his fathers footsteps, Telemachus undercovers an epic tale of a perilous sea voyage threatened by the man-eating monster Scylla and the raging whirlpool Charybdis, a respite on the island of the beautiful enchantress Circe, and a st