Goddess of Yesterday by Caroline Cooney

Goddess of Yesterday by Caroline Cooney

Readers are very interested in Greek and Roman mythology--especially because of the Percy Jackson Series. Caroline Cooney has written a story set in the Greek islands just before the Trojan war. The protagonist of this book is at the home of Menelaus and Helen when Paris takes Helen--and you will remember that this is the incident that began the Trojan war which lasted ten long years!

Cooney used the Iliad, The Odyssey, and many other historic Greek and Roman writers and well known stories as the sources for this book.

"Taken from her home on an Aegean island as a six-year-old girl, Anaxandra calls on the protection of her goddess while she poses as two different princesses over the next six years, before ending up as a servant in the company of Helen and Paris as they make their way to Troy."

http://www.randomhouse.com/teachers/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385729451&view=rg

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Anonymous said…
Wow this book sounds interesting, thanks for writing about it ;)

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