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Edge: I Hero: Legends, For National Curriculum Key Stage 2, Interest age: from c 7 years, For reluctant readers (children), Fantasy & magical realism (Children's / Teenage), Traditional stories (Children's / Teenage), Short stories (Children's / Teenage)
Exciting, choose-your-own-destiny adventure story, appropriate for 6-8 year olds, in which YOU are the hero.
YOU are Athena, goddess of the ancient Greeks. Your father Zeus banishes you from Olympus, home of the gods.
Now you must travel to confront Zeus, and get back your powers ... This is a choose-your-own-destiny adventure where YOU are the hero.
This is a title in the interactive I HERO Legends series - where the reader plays the part of a legendary hero! In each adventure the reader makes a choice that affects how the story progresses - it really is 'decide-your-own-destiny!
Written by the award-winning duo Steve Barlow and Steve Skidmore (more commonly known as the 2Steves), and illustrated by Andrew "2Hands" Tunney.
Age appropriate for 6 to 8 year olds and more sensitive readers. Also suitable for reluctant readers and less confident older readers. Printed using a font approved by the British Dyslexia Association.
Praise for EDGE: I HERO: Legends: Athena
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...takes storytelling to a whole new dimension. - Catton Grove Junior School, Norwich
Steve Barlow
As 50% of the Two Steves, Steve Barlow has written over 160 books with Steve Skidmore since their first published work appeared in 1988. Born in Crewe, he was educated at Crewe Grammar School, Warwick University and Nottingham University before a varied career in teaching, acting, stage management and puppetry. He worked in a village school in Botswana for four years before returning to the UK and working with Steve Skidmore. The Two Steves tour extensively in the UK and overseas, and are frequent visitors to book festivals including Edinburgh and Hay. Their work for Hachette includes the highly popular I Hero and Crime Team choose-your-adventure books, and their I Horror series is raising the short hairs at the back of readers' necks with Orchard Books.
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