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Danko, Dan.
THE MINOTAUR (MYTHQUEST ; 1)
New York : Bantam Books, 2002.
IL 3-6
ISBN 0553487590
Dr. Bellows has disappeared and no one seems to want to help find him.  The police believe he simply left his family.  Alex and Cleo just know their father would never do that.  He had been working on his computer the night he disappeared so Cleo works on fixing it to get some clues.  When she finally is able to open her father's cybermuseum on his computer, she and Alex are astounded at how realistic the items appear.  When Alex touches the plasma screen to point out something. he too disappears!  Now he is trapped in the role of the mythological figure of Theseus and he is expected to defeat the Minotaur!  How can he ever get out of this one?
SUBJECTS:     Science fiction.
                        Legends, myths and fables.

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