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Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child -- not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power -- the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves. Threatened, Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she hones...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Monsters, mortals, gods, and warriors: For over sixty years readers have chosen this book above all others to discover the thrilling, enchanting, and fascinating world of Western mythology. From Odysseus's adventure-filled journey to the Norse god Odin's effort to postpone the final day of doom, Edith Hamilton's classic collection not only retells these stories with brilliant clarity but shows us how the ancients saw their own place in the world and...
3) The Odyssey
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.3 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents a graphic junior adaptation of "The Odyssey," following the Greek warrior Odysseus's troubled voyage home after the fall of Troy.
4) Lore
Author
Publisher
Hyperion, an imprint of Buena Vista Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
Every seven years there is a hunt offering mortal descendants of gods the opportunity to claim their divinity by killing any of nine immortals made mortal for one night. Lore Perseous has no desire to participate in the Agon, embittered because her family was killed by a rival who then ascended to godhood. When a childhood friend asks her to help, and a wounded god offers an alliance, Lore overlooks the steep cost of this decision in exchange for...
Author
Series
Daughter of Sparta volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Daphne, a Mothakes (stranger) to the people of Sparta, is a well-trained fighter determined to prove to King Menelaus and Queen Helen that she is as good or better than any other. During the festival of Carneia, when the city competes to renew the blessings from the gods, Daphne's brother Pyrrhus fails to run at a game, so she impetuously takes his place. In the dark forest, she comes across the goddess Artemis, who tasks her with seeking out the...
6) Underworld
Author
Series
Abandon volume 2
Publisher
Point
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
John Hayden, a death deity, takes seventeen-year-old Pierce Oliviera back to the Underworld against her will to keep her safe from the Furies, but her family is still at risk and she, herself, may never escape his captivity.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Claire witnesses a love so dramatic it is as if Ella Grey has been captured and taken from her, but the loss of her best friend to the arms of Orpheus is nothing compared to the loss she feels when Ella is taken from the world in this modern take on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice set in Northern England.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Karou, a lovely, enigmatic art student in a Prague boarding school, carries a sketchbook of hideous, frightening monsters--the chimaerae who form the only family she has ever known.
10) Lovely War
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
The Greek goddess Aphrodite recounts two tales of tragic love during WWI to her husband, Hephaestus, and her lover, Ares, in a luxe Manhattan hotel room at the height of World War II. She seeks to answer the age-old question: "Why are Love and War eternally drawn to one another?" but her quest for a conclusion that will satisfy her jealous husband uncovers a multi-threaded tale of prejudice, trauma, and music revealing that War is no match for the...
11) Mortal gods
Author
Series
Goddess war volume 2
Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
The escalating war between the gods takes Athena and Cassandra across the globe, searching for lost gods, old enemies, and the great warrior, Achilles, and although their alliance is fragile, they must find a way to work together or all is lost.
12) Awaken
Author
Series
Abandon volume 3
Publisher
Point
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Pierce Oliviera knew by accepting the love of John Hayden, she'd be forced to live forever in the Underworld. But now her happiness and safety are threatened because the Furies have discovered that John has broken one of their strictest rules, and the only way to fix the balance is for someone to die"--
13) Abandon
Author
Series
Abandon volume 1
Publisher
Point
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
A near-death experience, a horrible incident at school, and a move from Connecticut to Florida have turned seventeen-year-old Pierce's life upside-down, but when she needs him most John Hayden is always there, helping but reminding her of her visit to the Underworld.
14) Ungodly
Author
Series
Goddess war volume 3
Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
For the Goddess of Wisdom, what Athena didn't know could fill a book. So the assault on Olympus left them beaten and scattered and possibly dead. So they have to fight the Fates themselves, who, it turns out, are the source of the gods' illness. And sure, Athena is stuck in the underworld, holding the body of the only hero she has ever loved. But all is not lost... --Publisher.
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