McCaughrean, Geraldine

A collection of fifteen retellings of Greek myths.

When a diphtheria outbreak forces twelve-year-old Cissy to leave her Oklahoma hometown in the 1890s, she and her two classmates embark on a wild adventure down the Missouri River with a team of traveling actors who are living on a dilapidated paddle steamer.

Contains retellings of twenty-seven myths and legends from around the world, including the story of the Indian boy became the Buddha, and the German tale of Dr. Faust, a man who sells his soul to the devil.

As the rains come and the flood waters rise, Noah and the animals on the ark repeatedly call to the unicorns to hurry aboard.

Contains twenty-two myths and legends from around the world, from a Greek myth to a legend from Ceylon, they tell the stories of half-remembered heroes of ancient times, or ordinary people whose lives were changed by some mystery, or who performed some great deed.

Ashamed of his crown of antlers, the reindeer retreats to the lonely northern wastelands, but many years later his descendants find their antlers useful when they help Santa Claus one Christmas Eve.

Pepper Roux decides to test fate and embarks on a journey the day before he turns fourteen, which is also the day he is expected to die, meeting outrageous friends and dangerous enemies along the way.

In this variation of the traditional Baba Yaga story, a young girl must rely on the advice of her dead mother and her special doll when her wicked stepmother sends her to get a needle from Grandma Chickenlegs.

Noah's daughter, daughters-in-law, sons, wife, and the animals describe what it was like to be aboard the ark while they watched everyone around them drown.