Download or read book Shadow of the Minotaur written by Alan Gibbons and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 2004-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phoenix is a death-defying hero of the Greek myths, battling the snake-haired Medusa and the invincible Minotaur...but only when he's not being bullied at the school that he hates. For Phoenix leads two lives - 'real life' and his adventures in side the virtual reality game The Legendeer.
Download or read book Shadow Of The Minotaur written by Alan Gibbons and published by Orion Children's. This book was released on 2000-02-03 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Real life' or the death defying adventures of the Greek myths, with their heroes and monsters, daring deeds and narrow escapes - which would you choose? For Phoenix it's easy. He hates his new home and the new school where he is bullied. He's embarrassed by his computer geek dad. But when he logs on to The Legendeer, the game his dad is working on, he can be a hero. He is Theseus fighting the terrifying Minotaur, or Perseus battling with snake-haired Medusa. It feels as though he's really there ¿ The Legendeer is more than just a game. Play it if you dare.
Download or read book Shadow of the Minotaur written by Alan Gibbons and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phoenix hates his new home and his new school, and he is embarrassed by his computer geek dad. When he logs on to the Legendeer he becomes a hero, such as Theseus or Perseus. The trouble is the Legendeer is more than just a game.
Download or read book The Legendeer Shadow Of The Minotaur written by Alan Gibbons and published by Orion Children's Books. This book was released on 2010-12-23 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Real life' or the death defying adventures of the Greek myths, with their heroes and monsters, daring deeds and narrow escapes - which would you choose? For Phoenix it's easy. He hates his new home and the new school where he is bullied. He's embarrassed by his computer geek dad. But when he logs on to The Legendeer, the game his dad is working on, he can be a hero. He is Theseus fighting the terrifying Minotaur, or Perseus battling with snake-haired Medusa. It feels as though he's really there ¿ The Legendeer is more than just a game. Play it if you dare.
Download or read book Shadow of the Minotaur written by Alan Gibbons and published by Chivers Children's Audio Books. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Real life' or the death-defying adventures of the Greek myths, with their heroes and monsters, daring deeds and narrow escapes -- which would you choose? For Phoenix it's easy. He hates his new home and the new school where he is bullied. He's embarrassed by his computer geek dad. But when he logs on to The Legendeer, he can be a hero. He is Theseus fighting the terrifying Minotaur, or Perseus battling with the snake-haired Medusa. The trouble is The Legendeer is more than just a game. Pay it if you dare...
Download or read book The Legendeer Vampyr Legion written by Alan Gibbons and published by Orion Children's Books. This book was released on 2010-12-23 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping, virtual reality thriller - the second title in The Legendeer trilogy. What if there are places where our nightmares live and wait for us? Phoenix has found one and it's alive. Armies of bloodsucking vampyrs and terrifying werewolves, the creatures of our darkest dreams, are poised to invade our world. After his battle with the evil Gamesmaster in SHADOW OF THE MINOTAUR, Phoenix knows this is for real. As he prepares to enter the second deadly computer game in The Legendeer series, he knows he must win or never come back. The Legendeer is more than just a game. Play it if you dare.
Download or read book The Legendeer Trilogy written by Alan Gibbons and published by Orion Children's Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHADOW OF THE MINOTAUR, VAMPYR LEGION and WARRIORS OF THE RAVEN are computer games that open the gateway between our own world and the realm of myth and legend, with heroes and monsters, daring deeds and narrow escapes, triumphs and tragedies. Over the course of three exhilarating novels, our hero Phoenix escapes the workaday ordeal of his own life in order to face the evil Gamesmaster - not once, but three times. Every time he goes back he risks all as the stakes become increasingly higher, and he learns the Gamesmaster's merciless power knows no bounds. As he approaches his final conflict, the journey becomes heartstopping. Our future depends on his . . .
Download or read book The Legendeer Warriors of the Raven written by Alan Gibbons and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-12-23 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Legendeer opens the gateway between our world and the world of the myths, between triumph and tragedy. The Gamesmaster almost has us at his mercy. Twice before fourteen-year-old Phoenix has battled against him in Shadow of the Minotaur and Vampyr Legion, but Warriors of the Raven is the game at its most complex and deadly level. Set in the world of Norse myth, Phoenix enters the arena for the final conflict. Join him in Asgard to fight Loki, the Mischief-maker, the terrifying Valkyries, dragons and fire demons - and hope for victory. Our future depends on him. The Legendeer is more than just a game. Play it if you dare.
Download or read book Storm Thief written by Chris Wooding and published by Scholastic UK. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perfect for fans of Neil Gaiman and Michael Grant, this darkly thrilling novel is a powerful blend of fantasy and science-fiction. Rail and Moa are two teenage thieves. Vago is a golem of metal and flesh. All three are denizens of Orokos, a city scoured by chaotic storms that rearrange streets and turn children into glass. No one can enter the city, or leave. Until one day Rail finds a mysterious artifact that may hold the key to the secrets of the city - and the chance of escape. And so begins an impossible quest. Get ready for a breathtaking adventure.
Download or read book King of Shadows written by Susan Cooper and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only in the world of the theater can Nat Field find an escape from the tragedies that have shadowed his young life. So he is thrilled when he is chosen to join an American drama troupe traveling to London to perform A Midsummer Night's Dream in a new replica of the famous Globe theater. Shortly after arriving in England, Nat goes to bed ill and awakens transported back in time four hundred years -- to another London, and another production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Amid the bustle and excitement of an Elizabethan theatrical production, Nat finds the warm, nurturing father figure missing from his life -- in none other than William Shakespeare himself. Does Nat have to remain trapped in the past forever, or give up the friendship he's so longed for in his own time?
Download or read book The Egyptian Warrior written by Benjamin Hulme-Cross and published by Warrior Heroes. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel back in time to ancient Egypt with brothers Arthur and Finn as they try to prevent a war by gaining the trust of a prince and princes caught up in dangerous rivalries.
Download or read book Vampyr Legion written by Alan Gibbons and published by Orion Publishing Company. This book was released on 2000 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if there are places where our nightmares live and wait for us? Phoenix has found one and it's alive. Armies of bloodsucking vampyrs and terrifying werewolves, the creatures of our darkest dreams, are poised to invade our world. After his battle with the evil Gamesmaster in Shadow of the Minotaur, Phoenix knows this is for real. As he prepares to enter the second deadly computer game in The Legendeer series, he knows he must win or never come back. The Legendeer is more than just a game. Play it if you dare.
Download or read book Julie and Me and Michael Owen makes Three written by Alan Gibbons and published by Orion Children's Books. This book was released on 2010-12-23 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Terry Payne, life is not much fun. His parents are splitting up, and he's fallen desperately in love with the gorgeous new girl at school, who doesn't even know he exists. To top it all off, his beloved football team - the mighty Man U - are on a losing streak. As Terry sees Man U lose to Liverpool, watches in horror as arch-rival and school golden boy showers the beautiful Julie with attention, and discovers the object of his affections is ... a Liverpool fan, he starts to think that things can't get much worse. After all, it's a close contest in Life versus Football - and there can only be one winner. Can't there? Hilarious and heart-warming, this is a touching story about the ups and downs of life, love, and more importantly, football, from award-winning author, Alan Gibbons.
Download or read book Theseus and the Minotaur written by Hugh Lupton and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Retells the Greek myth of how Theseus defeats the Minotaur of Crete.
Download or read book Rise of the Blood Moon written by Alan Gibbons and published by Orion Children's Books. This book was released on 2010-12-23 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has always been this way. The Helati are slaves. Each month, at the full moon, they are expelled to face the demon host, the Lost Souls. But something has changed in the fabric of the times. The demons are controlled by a new master, the Darkwing. Now the danger is permanent, the horror incessant. In a southern port, however, a fourteen year old slave girl, oblivious of her destiny, holds the key to ending the nightmare of the Lost Souls. But will she ever understand the secret that is hidden deep in her memory, the secret of the Black Tower? Alan Gibbons' latest novel is an epic fantasy that takes you through a fabled land, reminiscent of a mythical ancient India. On a roller-coaster ride you will meet shape-shifters, demons, magic, tyrants, an evil lord who is the master of the living dead and countless fighters for evil...and for good.
Download or read book The Minotaur written by Harrison Birtwistle and published by Boosey & Hawkes Incorporated. This book was released on 2008 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Retelling of the myth of the Cretan Minotaur, this book considers the inner world of the Minotaur himself, and suggests a dark and compelling reason for Ariadne's intense relationship with Theseus.
Download or read book Myth O Mania Stop that Bull Theseus written by Kate McMullan and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2003 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zeus's version of the Theseus myth is totally fabricated! Theseus went into the labyrinth all right, but the only thing he did in there was get lost. He never killed the Minotaur. Zeus made the whole thing up so everyone would think the Minotaur was gone for good. Hades, King of the Underworld, sets the record straight on the story of Theseus and the Minotaur.
