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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 20
Description
Who cut off Medusa's head? Who was raised by a she-bear? Who tamed Pegasus? It takes a demigod to know, and Percy Jackson can fill you in on the all the daring deeds of Perseus, Atalanta, Bellerophon, and the rest of the major Greek heroes. Told in the funny, irreverent style readers have come to expect from Percy and enhanced with vibrant artwork by Caldecott honoree John Rocco. Covers larger-than-life personalities from the classic Greek stories...
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"In ancient Greece, a skilled marble sculptor has been blessed by a goddess who has given his masterpiece--the most beautiful woman the town has ever seen--the gift of life. After marrying her, he expects Galatea to please him, to be obedience and humility personified. But she has desires of her own and yearns for independence. In a desperate bid by her obsessive husband to keep her under control, Galatea is locked away under the constant supervision...
43) Wicked beauty
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Series
Dark Olympus novels volume 3
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"Achilles Kallis vowed that he'd do whatever it took to claw his way into Olympus's inner circle. Now that the former Ares is gone and the coveted role has opened to anyone with the strength to claim it, he and his partner, Patroclus Fotos, plan to both compete and double their odds of winning. Neither expect the infamous beauty Helen Kasios to be part of the prize...or for the sparks that fly when the three of them meet. Zeus may have decided Helen...
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Trials of Apollo volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Leaving the safety of the demigod training ground, a disgraced Apollo embarks on a quest across North America to find a dangerous ancient-world Oracle while navigating the challenges of the evil Triumvirate.
45) The Iliad
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Due to a lack of biographical evidence regarding the identity of Homer it has been suggested that the two great works attributed to him, the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey" may in fact be the work of multiple authors passed down through a long oral tradition. While scholarship on the subject will likely never definitely prove one way or the other, it is now generally accepted that these two great epic poems are the work of a single Greek author, Homer,...
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Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Description
After learning that he is the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea, twelve-year-old Percy is sent to a summer camp for demigods like himself, and joins his new friends on a quest to prevent a war between the gods.
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"This is the women’s war, just as much as it is the men’s. They have waited long enough for their turn... This was never the story of one woman, or two. It was the story of them all... In the middle of the night, a woman wakes to find her beloved city engulfed in flames. Ten seemingly endless years of conflict between the Greeks and the Trojans are over. Troy has fallen. From the Trojan women whose fates now lie in the hands of the Greeks, to...
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Series
Myth-o-mania volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
Description
In this story with a modern twist, Hades tells his own version of how he became King of the Underworld and Zeus became King of the Gods.
49) The Odyssey
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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The first great adventure story in the Western canon, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty and power; about marriage, family and identity; and about travellers, hospitality and the changing meanings of home in a strange world. This vivid new translation - the first by a woman - matches the number of lines in the Greek original, striding at Homer's sprightly pace. Emily Wilson employs elemental, resonant...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 15
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Description
Will the Greek god Apollo, cast down to Earth in the pathetic mortal form of a teenager named Lester Papadopoulos, finally regain his place on Mount Olympus? Lester's demigod friends at Camp Jupiter just helped him survive attacks from bloodthirsty ghouls, an evil Roman king and his army of the undead, and the lethal emperors Caligula and Commodus. Now the former god and his demigod master Meg must follow a prophecy uncovered by Ella the harpy. Lester's...
51) Athena the brain
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Series
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Athena learns that she is a goddess when she is summoned to Mount Olympus by her father, Zeus, and she must quickly adjust to her new status, make friends with the other godboys and goddessgirls, and catch up with all the studies she missed while attending mortal school.
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Series
Myth-o-mania volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
Description
In this modern version of Greek mythology, Hades explains how a jealous Athena turned Medusa into a gorgon and what really happened when Perseus went hunting for Medusa's head.
53) Dark of the moon
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Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Retells the story of the minotaur through the eyes of his sister, Ariadne, a girl destined to become a goddess of the moon, and her new friend, Theseus, the son of Athens' king who was sent to Crete as a sacrifice to her brother.
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Series
Pub. Date
©2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Demi-god Percy Jackson and his friends must journey into the Sea of Monsters to save their camp. But first Percy will discover a secret that makes him wonder whether being claimed as Poseidon's son is an honor or a cruel joke.
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Series
Myth-o-mania volume 6
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Hades, King of the Underworld, tells the real story of Pandora opening the box and releasing all the evils of mankind into the world.
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Series
Heroes in training volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Description
When ten-year-old Zeus is kidnapped, he discovers he can defend himself with a magical thunderbolt.
Author
Series
Heroes in training volume 4
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Description
"Phew, it's hot! Under the titan Hyperion's rule, the sun is burning even brighter than normal and scorching everything in northern Greece--including the villagers! The Olympians are forced to play a sizzling "game" of Dodge the Sunbursts as Hyperion hurls giant fireballs that could fry them to pieces! Armed with some clues, Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades set out to figure out why in the world Hyperion has been making things so hot. They also need to rescue...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Hanged in an annual sacrificial ritual to Poseidon, seventeen-year-old oracle Leto awakens on an island inhibited by Melantho, a strange immoral girl with oceanic powers, who tells Leto the only way to break Poseidon's curse is to return to Ithaca and kill the prince.
60) Phaedra: a novel
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Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Phaedra has been cast to the side all her life: daughter of an adulteress, sister of a monster, and now unwilling bride to the much-older, power-hungry Theseus. Young, naïve, and idealistic, she has accepted her lot in life, resigned to existing under the sinister weight of Theseus's control and the constant watchful eye of her handsome stepson Hippolytus. When supposedly pious Hippolytus assaults her, Phaedra's world is darkened in the face of...
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