Books published by publisher Meadow Road Publishing

Tel's Odyssey is a re-imagining of Homer's Odyssey told from the viewpoint of Odysseus's twelve-year-old son, Telemachus ("Tel"). With no knowledge of how Odysseus triumphed over the Sirens, Circe, Cyclops, or Scylla and Charybdis, Tel must devise his own solutions while searching for his father. SETTING: Ancient Greece, one year after the end of the Trojan War.SUMMARY: During King Odysseus's absence, Ithaca has fallen under the control of a group of escaped prisoners known as the Damnati. They're the worst of the worst, all eternally damned. Their leaders are Lykos the Wolf and Zenzes the Unredeemable. Both want to kill Tel before he can claim the throne or find his father, then they plan to force Queen Penelope into marriage.Several of Odysseus's most trusted companions from the Trojan War – Ajax, Three Toe, and Two Blade – safely arrived on Ithaca's shores even though their leader did not. But with the Damnati in control, they're forced to live on the streets. Worse, Lykos the Wolf has neutralized the effectiveness of Ajax, second only to Achilles among the Grecian warriors, by blinding him. These three bond with Odysseus's twelve-year-old son Tel while searching for their missing king. After reuniting with a father he barely remembers, our young hero must rush home to Ithaca to save his mother from a forced marriage, then defeat the Damnati.

ONE-SENTENCE SUMMARY: Principal Fry and Coach Downey live to smack down the students of Wahoo Middle School, but it’s a major mistake to mess with Max, Baz, and Ali, the Righters of Wrongs.AUDIENCE: teens, video-game fanatics, anyone needing a laugh.SAME FLAVOR AS: Louis Sachar’s HolesTEASER: Robin Hood was cool in his day. Move aside, dude, the RoW can handle it.SUMMARY: Max, Baz, and Ali are the Righters of Wrongs at Wahoo Middle School. These modern-day Robin Hoods return confiscated yo-yos and iGamers to their rightful owners.After every raid by the Righters of Wrongs, Mr. Fry fortifies his fortress with additional locks, chains, and even bars (over the ventilation ducts). Are the members of the RoW crazy or inspired when they attempt a raid on the Command Center during broad daylight? VIDEO-GAME TIE-IN: Max and his buddies can't enough of a video gamed named Take It to the MAX.

Before the beginning of all that we see, There was only God, as a family of three. And the love that flowed between the Three Was the truest love that could ever be. And so begins The Love That Is True, the adventure of God’s love through all time. This book powerfully shows God’s love to children with vibrant full-page illustrations and rhyme, taking each child on an adventure with God. This book includes pages on the creation of the universe, creation of animals and man, angels, sin, Jesus’ birth and death, life as a Christian, the Church, walking with God, and heaven. For ages 4 and up, each page includes a discussion question and a Bible reference. In addition, the entire book can be sung to the included easy piano or guitar music.

Roundly considered Woolf's most playful work, Orlando is the 'biography' of a unique individual; a protagonist whose search for satisfaction, for a full and all-encompassing life, is entirely unbound by convention. Starting out as an Elizabethan boy, Orlando travels through distant lands and through centuries on a quest to find self-expression, before becoming a twenty-first-century woman writer. Conceived as a cryptic love letter from Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, Orlando is an ambitious and revolutionary epic that experiments with form and character to create a work that is at once challenging and exuberant. Behind the quiet confidence of Virginia Woolf's stream-of-consciousness prose was a tumultuous and tragic personal life. A member of England's influential Bloomsbury Set, she died by suicide in 1941. Her position as one of the greatest ever female - and modernist - writers is incontestable.Also available:To the Lighthouse ISBN 9781909399037

AUDIENCE: teens, video-game fanatics, anyone who needs a laugh.TEASER: It's not everyday that a cute girl flirts with you during a funeral and then wants to hang out at your prom.CAPSULE SUMMARY: Max, Baz, and Ali are now seniors at Wahoo High School. They've been best buds since 8th grade, but Baz's half-sister wants to hang out with them at the prom. It's time for Max and Ali to decide, is this a crush or are we a couple?SUMMARY:Max and Baz have been smitten with Ali since middle school. Baz's half-sister (Phylly) is making some serious moves on Max. It's time to choose or lose. Grammy Evie complicates everyone's lives by performing a high-velocity nose dive into a potted plant; neither she nor the plant survives. No one knew that she loved high-stakes poker, had a Canadian email address, or a closet devoted to flamboyant hats with foot-long feathers. Did Grammy gamble away the deed to her home?Prom decorating is being supervised by Cecil Augustus Burdy, whose tastes exceed Wahoo High's budget. Coaches Downey and Kroeger are in charge of maintaining strict decorum in the hallways and even stricter morality. Whispers of mutiny are growing louder.Max, Phylly, Baz, and Ali decide to gamble on some desperate schemes to save their prom. They know that sometimes you have to Take It To The MAX.VIDEO GAME TIE-IN:Everyone at Wahoo High is addicted to a new video game named Choose or Lose, which forces the players to make some insanely difficult choices. The game's neo-Nazi stars are Fraulein Krow, code name Raven, and Dr. Wulfstein, code name Wolfie. Both look and act a LOT like the hall monitors that Max and his friends face each day at Wahoo High.

What is Art? What is value? What is good taste? What makes a cultured class? Tolstoy wrestled with these questions for fifteen years, and this book is the result of his fascination with the evolution of art, and its relationship with religion, commerce, and science. As the growing digitization of our world continues to provide new ways to create and consume art, and raises questions about its quality and its control, What is Art? challenges us to revert to the visceral, the authentic, and to think carefully about how art can shape our collective future.

Allie and Shoo Spywell is just regular kids-well, sort of. It's just that their dad is an archaeologist, and their mother is a mystery writer. The Spywell kids always seem to get a few more history lessons than they would like. When Allie and Shoo arrive in St. Joseph, Michigan, they expect to have a relaxing vacation on the beach. However, something seems strange about the cottage. Is it haunted by a fisherman drowned in a storm many years ago? And is that a real sailing ship they see in the mist-or is it the legendary ghost ship the Griffin? Join Allie and Shoo in their thrilling adventure as they explore the history and legends of the French explorer LaSalle and his ghost ship, the Griffin, loaded with details of Great Lakes history.

TITLE: HERCULES: Gods Versus TitansWORD COUNT: 26,337 words (182 paperback pages).AUDIENCE: Middle school and teenage boys.SETTING: Ancient Greece, after the Trojan War.TEASER: In the battle to end all battles, gods and titans will die.CAPSULE SUMMARY: We follow the blind poet Homer, his grandson Ty (age 12), and their protector Hercules as they battle their way across war-torn Greece.To win the battle of the gods versus the titans, Hercules must help build seven Death Machines, then trigger them. Both gods and titans will die. THIS is Hercules' biggest battle.SYNOPSIS: The novel has two narrators, Homer (the blind poet) and his twelve-year-old grandson Ty (Tydeus) of Athens. Hercules becomes their protector after they're injured during an earthquake that is caused by the goddess Hera's mischief. She blames Hercules, who is sentenced to perform six labors: (1) kill a lion with impenetrable skin, (2) slay a nine-headed-hydra, (3) battle 500 flesh-eating birds, (4) clean the king's dung-filled stables in less than a day, (5) out-wit a sea monster named Voracious, and (6) retrieve one of the three-headed watchdogs who guard the gates of Hell.Hera's earthquake has an unforeseen repercussion: the fissures allow the giants and titans imprisoned in the Pit of Tartarus to escape, which sets us up for GIGANTOMACHIA, the final battle for supremacy between the gods and the titans.

Allie and Shoo Spywell is just regular kids-well, sort of. It's just that their dad is an archaeologist, and their mother is a mystery writer. The Spywell kids always seem to get a few more history lessons than they would like. While left on their own to explore the Detroit Historical Museum, Allie and Shoo soon meet strange characters. Shoo meets a boy in red tennis shoes who becomes even more mysterious and stranger as the afternoon wears on. Allie, meanwhile, is taken by the woeful stories of a weeping woman who is dressed in an ancient French gown and claims to be the wife of Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, Detroit's founder. Allie learns the true accounts and mysterious happenings of old Detroit as she tries to warn Shoo that his new friend is not a friend at all, but holds the secrets of Madame Cadillac and her husband. Shoo is the only one to save them but will he be able to rescue them before they are permanently trapped in Detroit's past?The boy in the red shoes is actually based on the "Red Devil" that is found throughout the writings of Cadillac, and not an imaginary character created by Panagopoulos.

AUDIENCE: Teens, video-game fanatics.TEASER: Total Chaos – it's a game. Total chaos – it's your life.CAPSULE SUMMARY: PREPARE YOURSELVES FOR BATTLE! Knights and Warriors Have a God-Given Right to Test Themselves, to Hone Their Skills, and to Seek the Glory that Comes with War. THE GAME: Total Chaos. THE STAKES: To the Death! THE PARTICIPANTS: Open to All.The HIGH FIVE Shall Be Crowned as GoGs – Gods of Games. Let the Games Begin!VIDEO-GAME TIE-IN: Life's not fair. Neither is the game of Total Chaos. The Agents of Chaos appear when least expected, and nothing's the same when they leave.

"Early one fine morning, not so long ago, a handsome young chicken named Lyle set off to seek fame and fortune as a pirate on the Seven Seas. Along the way he met a ghostly pirate-bear who warned him that there were more important things in life than gold and fame. After many adventures, Lyle had to make the choice between fame and fortune or family and friends. (The story of Lyle and the choice he made is told in the book: "The Legend of Yellowbeak the Pirate.") But advice was not all the pirate-bear gave Lyle; he also gave him a book of Geography to help him on his way. What he didn’t tell Lyle was that it was a magic book and whoever read it would become part of the story the book told........ This is that book....." The long-awaited companion book to "The Legend of Yellowbeak the Pirate" is told in verse and illustrated with sumptuous full colour and full-page pictures. It contains valuable information concerning the Bears of many countries as well as interesting insights into the countries themselves. There is also some Geography.