Artemis, a great athlete, enlists her fellow goddesses Athena, Persphone, and Aphrodite in a plan to persuade Zeus to open up the boys-only Olympic Games to girls.
While protecting egotistical transfer student Orion, Artemis makes a mistake that later provides her with the chance that she has both hoped for and dreaded, to prove her courage to herself and others at Mount Olympus Academy.
Pandora, one of the few mortals at Mount Olympus Academy, whose curious nature makes it difficult for her to not take a peek in the mysterious and dangerous box brought to school by Epimetheus, which causes far more trouble than anyone could have imagine.
Athena agrees to look out for Heracles, a mortal who has transferred to Mount Olympus Academy, and as she tries to help him fit in with the other kids, she finds herself drawn into his quest to complete twelve important tasks.
Pheme is the gossip queen at Mount Olympus Academy, but after she is caught snooping where she doesn't belong, she is challenged to go a whole day without gossiping.
Despite the warnings of her friends at Mount Olympus Academy, Persephone befriends bad-boy Hades, but following her mother's advice to "go along to get along" complicates Persephone's relationships with all of them.
"Feeling like an outsider at Oceanus Middle School and missing her dad, Eos, the goddess girl of dawn, uses a prophecy and her new power to make her best friend Tithonus immortal"--OCLC.