Ancient Greek Adventure---Happy Time Travel Agency (Happy Time Travel Agency)

Author: Baily
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Publish Date: 2004-12-01
Features: What happens when three modern children who wanted to look ahead to the future get stranded in the past? The order of Olympus is thrown into chaos! Join the Pingleton siblings—twins Josh and Emma and their little sister Libby—for an adventure! When they enter the Happy Times Travel Agency, intending to see the next Olympic Games in advance, they end up transported back to ancient Greece! The three children begin a journey on foot to Athens. Later, they meet a group of Spartans and travel with them. But when Libby decides to compete in the chariot race, the commotion she causes leads to great chaos. Pursued with fury by the ancient Greeks, the Pingleton siblings must make a heroic effort to return home. A GREEK ADVENTURE is a book that combines an exciting adventure story with historical knowledge about life in ancient Greece in the 5th century BC. Did you know that athletes at the Olympic Games were naked? Or that the slight convex design of the columns in Greek temples was intended to make them appear straight from a distance? Discover more about Greece, the gods, the birth of democracy, family life in ancient Greece—and much more. If you enjoyed this thrilling journey, you won’t want to miss the Pingleton siblings’ A CHINESE ADVENTURE, ADVENTURE WITH THE VIKINGS, A MEDIEVAL ADVENTURE, AN EGYPTIAN ADVENTURE, and A ICE AGE ADVENTURE.