The library at St. Jude’s was a place where sound went to die. It smelled of floor wax and the particular, dusty vanilla of decaying paper. For ten-year-old Leo, it was the only safe place in a school that felt like a machine built to crush him.
The book retells sixteen major stories, covering themes of adventure, hubris, and transformation: In the Beginning and Pandora's Box Persephone and the Pomegranate Seeds Echo and Narcissus Daedalus and Icarus Arachne the Spinner King Midas Perseus The Twelve Labours of Heracles Apollo and Daphne Theseus and the Minotaur Jason and the Golden Fleece Orpheus and Eurydice Atalanta's Race The Wooden Horse (The Trojan War) Odysseus Freedom for Prometheus the new windmill book of greek myths
Heroic Quests: Perseus, Theseus and the Minotaur, and Jason and the Golden Fleece. The library at St
Daedalus and Icarus: A timeless cautionary tale about the limits of human ingenuity. For ten-year-old Leo, it was the only safe