Corydon and the Island of Monsters
Title | Corydon and the Island of Monsters PDF eBook |
Author | Tobias Druitt |
Publisher | Yearling |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2009-02-25 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0307483312 |
A young shepherd, Corydon, is driven out of his village because of his unusual appearance and then captured and put on display as a monster. Alongside him in the traveling freak show are Medusa, the Minotaur, the Sphinx, and other classical beasts. When Corydon helps these monsters to escape their cages, they scatter to seek peace and solitude away from prying eyes. But then an army of “heroes” arrives hoping to win glory by killing the monsters, and Corydon must unite these unloved and unlikely allies to fight for their survival and for their island home.
Corydon and the Island of Monsters
Title | Corydon and the Island of Monsters PDF eBook |
Author | Tobias Druitt |
Publisher | Yearling Books |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2007-08-14 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 044042173X |
Corydon, an outcast Greek boy with the leg of a goat, learns that he is part of an old prophecy and joins forces with Medusa and other "monsters" known in Greek mythology in a confrontation with mortal heroes fighting for the Olympian gods.
Corydon and the Siege of Troy
Title | Corydon and the Siege of Troy PDF eBook |
Author | Tobias Druitt |
Publisher | Knopf Books for Young Readers |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 2009-03-10 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0375891668 |
After the destruction of the city of Atlantis, Corydon is in a selfimposed exile. Clearly his presence only puts his friends in danger. And so he hides out in the desert, tending to goats and camels, keeping his friends safe by staying away. But, as ever, the gods of Olympos have other plans. Now the city of Troy is under siege, and Corydon’s friends are trapped inside. And so Corydon reluctantly joins them, hoping to help, and fearing that it is he that will tip the scales against them. In this thrilling conclusion to the trilogy about the gods and monsters of ancient Greece, Corydon knows that it will be up to him to thwart the mighty Zeus if the others are to live. At what cost will he buy their freedom?
Claws
Title | Claws PDF eBook |
Author | Dan Greenburg |
Publisher | Random House Books for Young Readers |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 2009-03-25 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0307483010 |
When Cody is 14, he runs away from home, leaving behind his abusive mother, and flees across the country. He doesn’t stop until he hits Texas and the Sam Houston Tiger Ranch. Under the guidance of Sunny, the ranch’s owner, he cares for the animals in ways he never imagined. He feeds them a diet of raw, bloody meat. He cleans out their cages. He takes them for exercise. He finds out how to get a tiger to back down, and when he should back down himself. But there is another lesson Cody has to learn—sometimes people are harder to handle than tigers.
Daddy's Little Angel
Title | Daddy's Little Angel PDF eBook |
Author | Shani Petroff |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 153 |
Release | 2009-08-20 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1101138890 |
“Mom always said my dad is the devil. I never knew she meant it literally!” All Angel’s father (a.k.a. the Devil) wants is to be a part of her life. And in return he has the power to give her anything she wants—including popularity and a date with her long-time crush, Cole Daniels. But Angel will only accept him on her terms: get out of the devil business and leave his special powers out of the equation. Is Angel condemning herself to an eternity of lunch at the losers’ table? Or can she and Daddy Dearest strike some kind of deal? Download quiz scoring key
The Winter War: A Novel
Title | The Winter War: A Novel PDF eBook |
Author | William Durbin |
Publisher | Wendy Lamb Books |
Pages | 242 |
Release | 2008-12-18 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0307549429 |
When the Soviet Union invades its tiny neighbor Finland in November 1939, Marko volunteers to help the war effort. Even though his leg was weakened by polio, he can ski well, and he becomes a messenger on the front line, skiing in white camouflage through the forests at night. The dark forest is terrifying, and so are the odds against the Finns: the Russians have 4 times as many soldiers and 30 times as many planes. They have 3000 tanks, while the Finns have 30. But a tank is no help in the snowy forest–a boy on skis is. And the Russians don’t know winter the way the Finns do, or what tough guerrilla warriors the Finns are. Marko teams up with another messenger, Karl. Gradually Marko learns that Karl’s whole family was killed by the Russians. And Karl has a secret–he’s really Kaari, a girl who joined up to get revenge for her family’s deaths.
Painting, Poetry, and the Invention of Tenderness in the Early Roman Empire
Title | Painting, Poetry, and the Invention of Tenderness in the Early Roman Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Hérica Valladares |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 267 |
Release | 2020-12-17 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1108835414 |
This book connects the emergence of Latin love elegy and a new, tender style in Roman wall painting.