John Heath

The Truth About Zeus John Heath

Suze is having a difficult Friday: her mother has disappeared into Greek myth; her dog just vanished, only to show up in a very peculiar mythological dictionary; and her dad is transforming into a bird of prey. She summons her slightly obsessive best friend Dimitri to help solve the mystery, but he spends much of his time losing a battle of wits with the dictionary. Even more unsettling, however, Suze herself--one of Zeus's distant progeny, as she is alarmed to learn--is suddenly sprouting feathers. Pulling them out only conjures up troubling mythological figures like Heracles, Hera, Helen, Cronus, and Hephaestus, who variously attempt to eat, aid, drown, advise, and set fire to the two friends. Things only get worse when they finally make it to Olympus, the languishing home of the gods.