"After angering his father Zeus, the god Apollo is cast down from Olympus. He must learn to survive in the modern world until he can somehow find a way to regain Zeus's favor"--
The Greek god Apollo, cast down to earth as the ungifted human teenager Lester Papadopoulos, and his demigod friends must go through the Labyrinth to find the third emperor--and an Oracle who speaks in word puzzles--somewhere in the American Southwest.
Tells the story of Julian's Grandmere's childhood when she was hidden by a family in a Nazi-occupied French village because she was Jewish and how a boy that she and her classmates once teased and shunned became her best friend and savior.