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Best friends Cassie and Greg get caught in the middle of a decades-old football rivalry between their high school teams, the Spartans and the Trojans, in this novel loosely based on Homer's classic tale, The Iliad.
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Homer’s Iliad, the classic tale of love and revenge, is shrewdly retold for teens inTroy High.Narrated by Cassie, a shy outsider at Troy High, the story follows the Trojans and Spartans as they declare war on the football field. After the beautiful Elena—who used to be the captain of the Spartan cheerleaders—transfers to Troy High and falls madly in love with Cassie’s brother Perry, the Spartans vow that the annual homecoming game will never be forgotten. Off the football field, an escalating prank war fuels tensions between the schools.The stakes are raised when Cassie is forced to choose between the boy she loves (a Spartan) and loyalty to her family and school.Troy High will seduce readers with its cast of mythic proportions.
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