The Odyssey by Geraldine McCaughrean is theextraordinary tale of mythological Greek King ... world below. Lotus-eaters: The lotus-eaters are people who feed the deadly lotus fruit to their visitors.

Odysseus, Greek hero and the King of Ithaca ... huge storms forced them to land on the Island of the Lotus Eaters. Odysseus’ men ate delicious fruit from the lotus trees that made them all ...

The Return captured the intensity of the last part of Homer's Odyssey ... the Cicones before coming across the Lotus-Eaters. After Odysseus's men eat fruit that makes them forget their ultimate ...