| Elektra's Adventures in Tragedy Contributor(s): Rees, Douglas (Author) |
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ISBN: 0762463031 ISBN-13: 9780762463039 Publisher: Running Press Kids OUR PRICE: $32.29 Product Type: Hardcover Published: May 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes - New Experience - Young Adult Fiction | Diversity & Multicultural - Young Adult Fiction | Family - Marriage & Divorce |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 640 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.8" W x 8.4" (0.80 lbs) 288 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Funny and smart with all the angst and sass of adolescence and a colorful cast of characters, this is a refreshing contemporary coming-of-age YA about one Greek-American girl's odyssey home. Sixteen-year-old Elektra Kamenides is well on her way to becoming a proper southern belle in the small Mississippi college town she calls home. That is, until her mother decides to uproot her and her kid sister Thalia and start over in California. They leave behind Elektra's father -- a professor and leading expert on Greek mythology, and Elektra can't understand why. For her, life is tragedy, and all signs point to her family being cursed. Their journey ends in Guadalupe Slough, a community of old Chicano families and oddball drifters sandwiched between San Jos (c)nd the southern shores of San Francisco Bay. The houseboat that her mother has bought, sight unseen, is really just an ancient trailer parked on a barge and sunk into a mudflat. What would Odysseus do? Elektra asks herself. Determined to get back to Mississippi at all costs, she'll beg, lie, and steal to get there. But things are not always what they seem, and home is wherever you decide to make it. |