Echo the Copycat (19) (Goddess Girls)

This isn't specific to this book, rather the overall series. They have helped turn my reluctant reader into an avid reader! The storylines are interesting, engaging, and funny, even for adults. I found myself disappointed when we were reading the books together and she'd read ahead the next day and I'd miss some! They're also extremely age appropriate, which is something I tend to be VERY picky about. My reader tends to be a little romance crazy so that part of the stories catches her interest while still keeping it care free and fun They reference having "a crush" and if the crush likes them back it turns into where they're "friends"; it's nice because it doesn't push the idea of dating or boy crazy-ness which can really trap young girls into the whole looking for love cycle. Maybe I'm overanalyzing, but I thought the way they handle the whole thing is cute.

My daughter loves these books. I think this is one of her favorites. We read some pages before bed every night. Such a fun and adventurous series for preteens.

The Goddess Girls series is great! I love how the authors play with the myths, turning them into realistic, innocent situations. Keep on writing!

My daughters love the Goddrss Girls books and this was no exception!

The Goddess Girls book series is so much fun!

Everything was a 5 star rating.

Goddess Girls ‘Echo The CopyCat’ by Joan Holub & Suzanne Williams I have read The Goddess Girls ‘Echo the CopyCat,’ Its an adventurous story about a forest-mountain nymph who was trying to find her way and wasn’t sure who she really was. Echo struggles to find her own identity, but along the way she copycats words, clothing, and styles in fashion magazines to feel special. Unfortunately her classmates feel differently about her copy cat attitude. For Echo it brings more heartache and confusion in the process and in her struggles she forgets to do the one important thing of all, to chant a protection spell for her beloved tree Firheart. Now Echo is on a quest to Mount Olympus Academy to get help to bring Firnheart back. I think this book is great to read, Joan & Suzanne have brought mythical characters to young readers and made it fun to learn the names of each character and gave each fun role. It also teaches about vanity, and the negative that can come when forget who we are underneath. I mean sure we all like to look at ourselves in the mirror each morning or every now and then, but when a person is obsessed about oneself then it becomes a bit too much. I’m sure almost everyone knows or use to know someone of that nature, I know I did. As like the character Narcissis, the authors used a self absorbed youth in mythology to show where too much of ones desire gets you. He’s a character one loves to hate, just like Echo who was absorb in impressing her classmates she forgot about her first duty, to protect her beloved tree. In her quest as she got sidetrack a few times all I could think about was poor Firnheart. But in the end she was able to do both, she was able to do what her heart desired and stay at home in the forest-mountain and study her designs and protect the new sapling that grew out of Firnheart stump. The authors had made this book simple to read but also passionate with their characters and will have you on edge as you turn the pages. I highly recommend this book for young readers and they will enjoy.

Time: A long time ago.Setting: From Greek Mythology.Echo is a forest nymph who is made to protect one tree. But one day, during a thunderstorm, her tree dies. Echo believes that this was Zeus's fault, for he is the god of thunder and lightning. Echo is determined to find Zeus and tell him about it.Once Echo got to Mt. Olympus to find Zeus, she realized that he didn't make the thunderstorm, it was Narcissus's fault. And the end, Echo got a new tree to protect.I like the book.

My eight year old daughter loves these books and cannot put them down once she starts reading them. It probably helps that she's done a bit about Greek Mythology at school.

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