cover image Atalanta and the Arcadian Beast

Atalanta and the Arcadian Beast

Jane Yolen. HarperCollins Publishers, $15.99 (256pp) ISBN 978-0-06-029454-0

Jane Yolen and Robert J. Harris present Atalanta and the Arcadian Beast, the third title in their Young Heroes series, which began with Odysseus and the Serpent Maze. Twelve-year old Atalanta befriends a bear, whom she names Urso, and enlists him as a partner in the search for the creature that killed her father.