McCaughrean, Geraldine

Left penniless in eighteenth century England, fourteen-year-old Nathan Gull and his mousy sister Maud accompany Tamo, the son of a notorious pirate, to his homeland of Madagascar where they are all changed by their encoutner with Tamo's dangerous past.

A retelling of Homer's epic that describes the wanderings of Odysseus after the fall of Troy.

Presents the story of the nativity from the perspective of Joseph.

Retells the Ithacan leader's struggle to return home from Troy in a chronological prose narrative that keeps the rhythms and power of his conflicts with the gods and mythological creatures of the epic poem.

The story of mythological figure Hercules, including the slaying of his family and his punishment of the twelve labors.

Retells Homer's epic in which Greek hero Odysseus makes his long and treacherous journey home from the Trojan War while his wife and son are forced to scheme to protect his throne.

Captures the drama and bloodcurdling action of the original work while making the story accessible to young people.

A retelling, based on seventh-century B.C. Assyrian clay tablets, of the wanderings and adventures of the god king, Gilgamesh, who ruled in ancient Mesopotamia (now Iraq) in about 2700 B.C., and of his faithful companion, Enkidu.