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Pandora Gets Lazy

Pandora Gets Lazy is the third book in this series following Pandora Gets Jealous and Pandora Gets Vain.  Featuring Greek Gods, myths and characters from Greek ancient history, this book continues the adventures of Pandora who is attempting to recapture all the evils which has she accidentally released from the box.  On  her way to find the evil Lazy, she falls from Apollo’s flying chariot and is rescued by Dionysus.  Her friends carry on in the chariot, fearing that Pandora is dead.  All the main characters are eventually captured by slavers who force march them to the mountains where Atlas is supposed to be holding up the heavens.  Only he’s not and is forcing thousands of human men to do the job for him.  Within 4 days, each man is crippled and spent and replaced with fresh slaves.  The action in this book is steady throughout and comes to a climax in the final scenes as Pandora is faced with rescuing her friends and saving the world.  I enjoyed reading this book and think it will especially appeal to girls 5th – 8th grade.  The characters speak like modern day teens, although all the book’s setting is ancient Greece, which I found a bit distracting as a reader.  Overall, I recommend this book and find that it is already popular in our K-8 school library.