The gray-eyed goddess

Mary Pope Osborne First published 2003

About this book

Retells a part of the Odyssey in which Ithaca, his wife, Penelope, and their son, Telemachus, are desperately warding off the men who want to marry her. Then a visit from a mysterious stranger gives Telemachus the courage to confront the suitors, and to search for his long-lost father.

Subjects

adventure and adventurers, fiction
children's fiction
circe (greek mythology)
classical mythology
fantasy fiction
fiction
greek mythology
horror stories
juvenile literature
odysseus
odysseus (greek mythology)
odysseus (greek mythology), juvenile literature
scylla and charybdis (greek mythology)
sirens (mythology)