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Return to Ithaca

Retells part of Homer's Odyssey in which Odysseus, with the help of the goddess Athena, plans to get revenge on those who have plagued his wife and son during his absence.

Main Author: Osborne, Mary Pope.
Other Authors: Howell, Troy., Homer.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Hyperion Books for Children, c2004.
Edition: 1st Hyperion pbk. ed.
Series: Mary Pope Osborne's Tales from the Odyssey ; 5
Subjects:
Odysseus (Greek mythology) > Juvenile nonfiction.
Mythology, Greek > Juvenile nonfiction.
Summary: Retells part of Homer's Odyssey in which Odysseus, with the help of the goddess Athena, plans to get revenge on those who have plagued his wife and son during his absence.
Physical Description: 104 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Audience: 008-011.
ISBN: 0786809930
9780786809936
0786807741
9780786807741
Author Notes: Mary Pope Osborne was born in Fort Sill, Oklahoma on May 20, 1949. She grew up in a military family, and by the time she was 15 she had lived in Oklahoma, Austria, Florida, and four different army posts in Virginia and North Carolina. She attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she majored in religion. After graduation, she traveled around Europe and Asia. Before becoming an author, she worked as a window dresser, a medical assistant, a Russian travel consultant, a waitress, an acting teacher, a bartender, and an assistant editor for a children's magazine.

Her first book, Run, Run as Fast as You Can, was published in 1982. She is the author of the Magic Tree House series and the Merlin Missions series. Her husband, actor Will Osborne, helps her write the nonfiction companion series, Magic Tree House Research Guides. Her other books include The Deadly Power of Medusa, Jason and the Argonauts, Haunted Waters, and Moonhorse.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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