goddess of yesterday by caroline b cooney

Except that is, for his wife Helen, who doesn’t believe Callisto’s story and becomes a constant danger to Anaxandra. She is then rescued by King Menelaus of Sparta and afraid to be taken as a slave, she assumes the identity of Princess Callisto and because of that she is welcomed with opens arm into his household. Until pirates attack the island and Anaxandra is the sole survivor. Unable to ever return to her family, Anaxandra comes to feel at home at Siphnos and to love her adopted family and for six years life goes unchanged. Why did I read this book: I luuurves me some Greek retellings and I heard good things about this one.Īnaxandra is six years old when King Nicander comes to the small island of her childhood and takes her away as a tribute and to be a companion to his sickly daughter Callisto. Cooney’s epic tale of one girl’s courage and will to survive, Anaxandra learns that home is where you make it and identity goes deeper than just your name. Can Anaxandra find the courage to reinvent herself once again, appease the gods, and save herself? Paris and Helen’s fascination with each other soon turns to passion and plunges Sparta and Troy into war. Although fearful of the half-mortal, half-goddess Helen, Anaxandra is able to stay out of harm’s way-until the Trojan princes Paris and Aeneas arrive. He takes her back to Sparta with him where Helen, his beautiful wife, does not believe that the red-headed child is Princess Callisto. Alone with only her Medusa figurine, she reinvents herself as Princess Callisto when Menelaus, great king of Sparta, lands with his men. Six years later, her new island is sacked by pirates and she is the sole survivor.

Publication date: First published in 2002Īnaxandra is taken from her birth island at age 6 by King Nicander to be a companion to his crippled daughter, Princess Callisto. Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers Genre: Fantasy, Greek Retelling, Young Adult

Goddess of yesterday by caroline b cooney