Olympians: Athena: Grey-Eyed Goddess -- George O'Connor, Paperback

Boom Pow Crash

Greek Gods as you've never seen them before

The strong, larger-than-life heroes of the Olympians can summon lightning, control the sea, turn invisible, or transform themselves into any animal they choose. Superheroes? No Greek gods. The ancient pantheon comes to explosive life in this new series where myth meets comic books. Epic battles, daring quests, and terrible monsters await readers within the pages of these books.

Volume 2, Athena: Grey-Eyed Goddess, is the tale of the goddess of wisdom and war, recounting her many adventures. This title has Common Core connections.

Author: George O'Connor
Publisher: First Second
Published: 04/13/2010
Pages: 80
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 10.07h x 7.33w x 0.22d
ISBN: 9781596434325
Audience: Ages 9-12

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.1
Point Value: 1
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 136702 / Athena: Grey-Eyed Goddess

Award: Cybils - Finalist

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 05/01/2010 pg. 80
Publishers Weekly 05/03/2010 pg. 55
School Library Journal 05/01/2010 pg. 141
Voice of Youth Advocates 08/01/2010 - Recommended - Hard To Beat
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2010 - Recommended, Satisfactory
SLJ's Best Books 12/01/2010 pg. 32

About the Author
George O'Connor is an author, illustrator and cartoonist. His first graphic novel, Journey Into Mohawk Country, used as its sole text the actual historical journal of the seventeenth-century Dutch trader Harmen Meyndertsz van den Bogaert, and told the true story of how New York almost wasn't. He followed that up with Ball Peen Hammer, the first graphic novel written by playwright Adam Rapp, a dark, dystopian view of a society's collapse. Now he has brought his attention to Olympians, an ongoing series retelling the classic Greek myths in comics form. In addition to his graphic novel career, O'Connor has published several children's picture books, including the New York Times best-selling Kapow, Sally and the Some-Thing, and Uncle Bigfoot. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.