Tom is reunited with his mother and must return to Greece to face a new and terrible threat from the dark forces, and a momentous decision must be made, causing a serious rift between Tom and the Spook that threatens to separate them forever.

Their magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back to retrieve a lost story in ancient Greece, where they witness the original Olympic games and are surprised to find what girls of the time were not allowed to do.

At Thermopylae, a rocky mountain pass in northern Greece, the feared and admired Spartan soldiers stood three hundred strong. Theirs was a suicide mission, to hold the pass against the invading millions of the mighty Persian army. Day after bloody day they withstood the terrible onslaught, buying time for the Greeks to rally their forces. Born into a cult of spiritual courage, physical endurance, and unmatched battle skill, the Spartans would be remembered...

"Describes the fascinating lifestyles of people in Ancient Greece. Using a celebrity-magazine type format, readers are introduced to life in this society"--

"Rachel Cusk's Outline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and stark, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing during an oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her students in storytelling exercises. She meets other visiting writers for dinners and discourse. She goes swimming with an elderly Greek bachelor. The people she encounters speak, volubly, about themselves: their fantasies, anxieties, pet theories, regrets, and...

The ancient Greeks created a remarkable culture that in many ways fashioned the foundations of later Western civilization. Through thoughtful narrative supported by fully documented quotes this title begins with A Brief History of Ancient Greece and then examines these questions: How Did the Rise of City-States Shape the Development of Greek Society? How Did Greek Military Practices Influence Western Warfare? How Did Athenian Theatrical Traditions...