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Mythology Heroes for Boys: Short Stories About Legendary Figures of Courage, Cleverness, and Adventure

Mythology Heroes for Boys: Short Stories About Legendary Figures of Courage, Cleverness, and Adventure

Hartwell, Emily

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ISBN13: 9798185820773
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 178
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.38 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Give your son heroes worth copying, the legends every superhero was based on.

Boys today can name every hero on the screen, but few know Heracles, Perseus, or the real Thor. Mythology Heroes for Boys changes that, with sixteen short, thrilling stories of legendary heroes from Greek, Norse, and world mythology, told for the adventure and not the homework.

These are not dry, dusty myth-book chapters. Each one is a fast, cinematic story with a monster, a quest, and a real strength your boy can borrow for his own life.

Inside this book:

  • 16 legendary heroes across six traditions: Greek, Norse, Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Celtic, and Polynesian
  • Heracles, Perseus, Theseus, Odysseus, Jason, Bellerophon, Daedalus and Icarus, Achilles, Thor, Sigurd, Tyr, Beowulf, Horus, Gilgamesh, Cu Chulainn, and Maui
  • One borrowable strength per hero: courage, cleverness, loyalty, self-control, sacrifice, and grit
  • A Did You Know? and a Hero Facts box in every chapter, so the facts stick
  • A Be a Hero This Week challenge that turns each story into a real-world action
  • Short, finishable chapters built to win reluctant readers and perfect for reading aloud
Written for boys roughly 7 to 12 (and any reader who loves a great myth), this is a complete lineup of larger-than-life role models in one book, framed around character a child can actually practice.

Honest, age-appropriate, and never preachy. Monsters and danger handled gently, legends told as legends, and a friendly Where to Go Next reading list at the back.

Real legends. Real adventure. A whole new set of heroes to look up to.

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