McMullan, Kate
Summary: In this humorous version of Greek mythology, Hades, King of the Underworld, tells the true story of Odysseus and his ten-year journey home from Troy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MCMHoena, B. A.
Summary: In this humorous (and gross) retelling of the Greek myth, Theseus and his hero friends visit the island of Crete and the amusement park known as the Labyrinth, where they encounter a nasty bully called the Minotaur who challenges Theseus to a race through the Maze-o-muck.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED HOEUnsworth, Barry
Summary: With the Greek fleet trapped in the straits of Aulis by storms, Iphigeneia, the daughter of Agamemnon, is brought to the coast under false pretenses in order to sacrifice her to appease the gods and allow the ships to continue their voyage to Troy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC UNSStephenson, Neal
Summary: In twenty-first-century America, a teenaged computer hacker finds himself fighting a computer virus that battles virtual reality technology and a deadly drug that turns humans into zombies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STEHoena, B. A.
Summary: In this humorous (and gross) retelling of the Greek myth, Perseus and his disgusting friends set out to pluck one of the snakes from Medusa's head, before her baleful gaze turns them all to sludge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED HOEYolen, Jane
Summary: Struggling with his Hebrew lessons, Abi takes an old scroll to help him practice and accidentally summons ten golems--who agree to come once a week to help him with his Hebrew.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "Benita loves to read in bed but keeps getting interrupted by a whistling Tunche, a scary Supay and other spooky creatures from Peruvian lore. To the creatures' disbelief, Benita is so absorbed by her book that she's not the least bit scared of them. This humorous celebration of bedtime reading puts a global twist on taking the "scary" out of monsters"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barefoot Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LLAStowell, Louie
Summary: After one prank too many, trickster god Loki has been banished to live as a kid on Earth. If he can show moral improvement within one month, he'll be allowed to return to Asgard. If not? Eternity in a pit of angry snakes. School, fake "parents," and an eleven-year-old Thor's farts are pure misery. But when a bigger threat than Loki's mischief comes to Earth, Loki will have to decide whether...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker Books 2022