Graphic myths and legends
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Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The son of Zeus, king of the gods, and a mortal mother, Hercules faces the wrath of Zeus's wife Hera, who resents her illegitimate stepson and vows to bring him misery. She tricks Hercules into performing a series of twelve seemingly impossible labors. Is Hercules strong enough to foil her scheme?
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Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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A graphic novel retelling of a Japanese myth in which the sun goddess Amaterasu, fearful of her brother Susano, the storm god, plunges the world into cold and darkness when she hides herself away in a cave.
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Series
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A graphic novel adaptation of the Greek myth in which the grief felt by Demeter over the loss of her beautiful daughter Persephone, who has been kidnapped by the god of the underworld, causes a permanent winter to fall over the land.
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