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Aru Shah and the End of Time
Roshani Chokshi - Rick Riordan Presents
Format: Hardcover
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Best-selling author Rick Riordan introduces this adventure by Roshani Chokshi about twelve-year-old Aru Shah, who has a tendency to stretch the truth in order to fit in at school. While her classmates are jetting off to family vacations in exotic locales, she'll be spending her autumn break... |
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Pegasus: The Flame Of Olympus
Kate O'Hearn - Aladdin
Format: Hardcover
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A young girl, a winged horse, and a war of epic proportions make for an adventurous start to an exciting new trilogy.When Pegasus crashes onto a Manhattan roof during a terrible storm, Emily's life changes forever. Suddenly allied with a winged horse she'd always thought was mythical, Emily... |
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Zeus: King of the Gods
George O'Connor - First Second
Format: Book
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Volume 1 of OLYMPIANS, ZEUS: King OF THE GODS, introduces readers to the ruler of the Olympian Pantheon, telling his story from his boyhood to his ascendance to supreme power. This title has Common Core connections.
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The Thieves of Ostia (Roman Mystery #1)
Caroline Lawrence - Roaring Brook Press
Format: Hardcover
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It is A.D. 79, and Flavia Gemina, daughter of a successful Roman sea captain, is about to celebrate her birthday. Then the dogs in her neighborhood start dying mysteriously, and there are rumors of burglary in the houses on Flavia's street. Set in the graveyards, houses, and alleyways of an ancient... |
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Athena the Brain
Joan Holub - Aladdin
Format: Book
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Athena always knew she was smart and special, but she didn't realize that she was a goddess! When she's whisked away to Mount Olympus Academy, she worries about fitting in and dealing with her dad - who just happens to be Zeus. Luckily, she meets the Goddess Girls - and finds the best... |
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The Curse of the Raven Mocker
Marly Youmans - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Book
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It's been weeks since Adanta's sick father left on a quest to find the healing lake mentioned in the lore of the Cherokee. Since then a visitor has arrived, a man Adanta doesn't like - James, or, as she's styled him, the Lean One. One day, after witnessing him make a frightening... |
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The Shadow Thieves (Cronus Chronicles Trilogy)
Anne Ursu - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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See that girl, the one with the bright red hair, overstuffed backpack, and aura of grumpiness? That's Charlotte Mielswetzski. And something extra-ordinary is about to happen to her. Oh, it's not the very cute kitten that appears out of nowhere and demands to go home with her. It's not the sudden... |
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Pandora Gets Vain (The Mythic Misadventures)
Carolyn Hennesy - Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Format: Hardcover
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After capturing jealousy from a priestess in Crete, Pandy, Alcie, Iole and Dido are off to Egypt in search of the second of seven evils, vanity. But the goddess Hera is still up to her old tricks, and throws as many obstacles as she can into Pandy's path. A storm at sea, a group of talking... |
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Frostborn
Lou Anders - Crown Books for Young Readers
Format: Book
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Meet Karn. He is destined to take over the family farm in Norrangard. His only problem? He'd rather be playing the board game Thrones and Bones.
Enter Thianna. Half human, half frost giantess. She's too tall to blend in with other humans but too short to be taken seriously... |
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Odysseus in the Serpent Maze
Jane Yolen - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover
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Offers the story of the Prince of Ithaca who, having been kidnapped by pirates, finds himself on a great journey to battle evil forces and outwit his enemies in order to get back home safely. |
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Anubis Speaks!: A Guide to the Afterlife by the Egyptian God of the Dead
Vicky Alvear Shecter - Boyds Mills Press
Format: Book
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Who better than Anubis, the jackal-headed god of mummification, to serve as a guide through the dreaded Land of the Dead? Along the way, they meet fearsome gods and gruesome monsters. And they witness the battle of the gods against Apophis, the giant demon-snake trying to devour the world.... |
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Odysseus
Geraldine McCaughrean - Cricket Books
Format: Book
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Odysseus and his loyal troops narrowly escape being eaten by the Cyclops, shipwrecked by Scylla and Charybdis, and turned into pigs by the beautiful Circe. The company must travel to Hell (or Hades) and back, dodge the constant pursuit of the vengeful Poseidon, and row across oceans in order... |
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Who Let the Gods Out?
Maz Evans - Chicken House
Format: Hardcover
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Elliot Hooper wants nothing more than a regular life for him and his mom. Then a Constellation of the Zodiac crashes from the sky into a pile of cow dung in front of him, and that wish explodes in a spray of...well...you know.Virgo, a 1,964-year-old girl, is on a routine mission to Earth... |
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The Sea of Trolls
Nancy Farmer - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Jack was eleven when the berserkers loomed out of the fog and nabbed him. "It seems that things are stirring across the water," the Bard had warned. "Ships are being built, swords are being forged." "Is that bad?" Jack had asked, for his Saxon village had never... |
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The Pig Scrolls
Paul Shipton - Candlewick
Format: Book
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"Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story of . . ." a talking pig? Behold Gryllus, ancient Greek hero of our epic tale, a smarty-pants former crewman of the storied Odysseus, transformed by Circe into a swine - and perfecty content to stay that way, thank you very much.... |
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Anatopsis
Chris Abouzeid - Dutton Juvenile
Format: Hardcover
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Princess Anatopsis Solomon wants to be a knight-errant. But hermother, chairwoman of Amalgamated Witchcraft Corporation, plans for her immortal daughter to take over the family business. The Queen has even hired a new tutor: a demigod named Mr. Pound. But Mr. Pound's plans go far beyond... |
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Iris, Messenger
Sarah Deming - Harcourt Inc.
Format: Book
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After discovering that the immortals of Greek mythology reside in her hometown of Middleville, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Iris listens to their life stories, gaining wisdom, beauty, and startling revelations about her past. |
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Loki's Wolves
K. L. Armstrong - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Calling all fans of myths, action-adventure, and the Percy Jackson series - don't miss this first book in the Blackwell Pages trilogy from bestselling authors K.L. Armstrong and Melissa Marr.While thirteen-year-old Matt Thorsen has always known he's a modern-day descendent of Thor, he's... |
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Secret of the Sirens
Julia Golding - Two Lions
Format: Hardcover
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When eleven-year-old Connie is sent to live with her eccentric aunt by the sea, she's not expecting anything great - not to make friends with Col, the coolest guy in town, and certainly not to discover that mythical creatures still exist, that an ancient society has protected them for centuries,... |
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The Game (Firebird)
Diana Wynne Jones - Firebird
Format: Book
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Hayley's parents disappeared when she was a baby. Since then, she has been raised and homeschooled by her grandparents. Grandad is overworked and travels a lot; Grandma is much too strict and never lets her meet any children her own age. When Hayley does something wrong - she is not quite... |
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Secrets of Valhalla
Jasmine Richards - HarperCollins
Format: Book
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It's not every day that you find a famous weatherwoman bound by magic to a tree deep in the woods. Or discover that the weatherwoman is in fact Sunna, the Norse Goddess of the Sun, and one of the seven day guardians who keep time in order. But that's just what happens to new friends... |
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Dusssie
Nancy Springer - Walker Childrens
Format: Hardcover
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Dusie always knew puberty was going to be confusing, but she never realized it was going to be catastrophic--until she wakes up one morning to find that her hair has turned into a writhing mass of slithering snakes and discovers the real truth about her family: her mother is a Gorgon--right... |
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Runemarks
Joanne Harris - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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Seven o'clock on a Monday morning, five hundred years after the end of the world, and goblins had been at the cellar again. . . . Not that anyone would admit it was goblins. In Maddy Smith's world, order rules. Chaos, old gods, fairies, goblins, magic, glamours-all of these were supposedly... |
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