Goddess of Yesterday
A Tale of Troy

This book confirmed my theory that Helen of Troy was a spoiled ... um ... witch. Just think about this: you've been told your whole life that you are the most beautiful woman alive. That you are the daughter of a god, and more beautiful than the goddesses in heaven. Kidnapped repeatedly by eager sui......more

This is one of those books that I read YA lit for! At first, I thought it would be fantasy, but I would categorize this as historic fiction because, while people speak as if the gods and goddesses were real, nothing happens that couldn't happen in real life. The reader gets a picture of what life wa......more

At age six, Anaxandra is taken as a hostage by King Nicander to be a companion to his crippled daughter Callisto. Just when things were going well, Siphons experienced another crisis. The island had gotten attacked by pirates and the only soul that survived that attack was Anaxandra. When a fleet of......more

(more like 3 and 1/2 stars) Anaxandra 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. Unable to ever return to her family, Anaxandra comes to feel at home at Siphnos and to love her a......more

Read this way back in grade school. I might no have done well on the dreaded and enforced required reading test I hade to take for it, but I still liked it.......more