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Mythology in Young Adult Fantasy Literature: War, Sexism, Family Dynamics

Cassandra Peel and the Wild Gods of Cyberspace

Cassandra finds herself spirited away to Mount Olympus, struggling against the devilish war god Ares as he tries to get World War III started somewhere in the Middle East. The central characters are entangled in the dispute between the forces of darkness led by Ares and the forces of light led by Athena and the mighty Hephaistos, blacksmith god turned electronics expert. With sex-goddess Aphrodite swinging both ways, it is sometimes hard to know who is on which side. [TO BUY ]

	Cassandra Peel and the Slave Girls of Xanadu Cassandra is blackmailed by a sexist organization when her friend Parvati is imprisoned as a potential sex slave in a sham paradise, designed to convince potential young suicide bombers that if they give their life for an allegedly holy cause they will be transported to the real paradise. [TO BUY]

	Cassandra Peel and the Curse of the Black Swan’s Daughter Feisty Cassandra cybertravels to Apollo’s shrine to convince him to give her her namesake’s gift of premonition, so that she can solve the mystery of her mother’s death. But when she rebuffs Apollo’s sexual advances, he takes her prisoner and bombards her with his frightening philosophy about family and sex. Can her friends, traveling in an Argo replica helmed by Jason, come to her rescue? [TO BUY]