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261) Spin
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Sixteen-year-old Arachne turns to weaving for solace, but when word spreads of her skill she is confronted by the goddess Athena and the two enter a weaving contest that results in transformation and redemption.
262) Lore
Author
Publisher
Puck
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Cada siete años comienza el agon. Como castigo por la rebelión, nueve dioses griegos son forzados a caminar por la Tierra, entre los mortales, mientras son perseguidos por cazadores, descendientes de antiguos linajes, con ansias de matar a un dios y hacerse con su poder divino e inmortalidad. Hace mucho tiempo, Lore Perseus huyo de esa competición brutal a raíz del sadico asesinato de su familia por parte de un linaje rival, y dejo atras las promesas...
263) A drop of venom
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Manisha is no stranger to monsters--she's been running from them for years, from beasts who roam the jungle to the King's army, who forced her people, the naga, to scatter to the ends of the earth. You might think that the kingdom's famed holy temples atop the floating mountains, where Manisha is now a priestess, would be safe--but you would be wrong. Seventeen-year-old Pratyush is a famed slayer of monsters, one of the King's most...
Author
Series
Twisted tale volume 11
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"What if Meg had to become a Greek god? After Hercules proves he's a true hero and regains his godship, all seems right in the world. That is, until Zeus tells Meg that she can't be with Hercules because she's, well, mortal. Luckily, Hera has a solution, offering Meg a chance to prove herself worthy of a spot on Mt. Olympus--as a god. All Meg has to do is complete a mysterious quest. The mission? Oh, just to rescue her ex's current wife from the Underworld....
265) Persephone the phony
Author
Series
Goddess girls volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Despite the warnings of her friends at Mount Olympus Academy, Persephone befriends bad-boy Hades, but following her mother's advice to "go along to get along" complicates her relationships with all of them.
266) Stone blind: a novel
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English
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"The only mortal in a family of gods, Medusa is the youngest of the Gorgon sisters. Unlike her siblings, Medusa grows older, experiences change, feels weakness. Her mortal lifespan gives her an urgency that her family will never know. When the sea god Poseidon assaults Medusa in Athene's temple, the goddess is enraged. Furious by the violation of her sacred space, Athene takes revenge--on the young woman. Punished for Poseidon's actions, Medusa is...
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English
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Twelve-year-old Autumn, the beastkeeper at Inglenook School for Magicians, befriends Cai Morrigan the young magician prophesied to destroy the dragon suspected of devouring Autumn's twin brother, and together they uncover the dark truth that lies at the heart of Inglenook School.
Author
Series
Goddess girls volume 11
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When Orpheus, a charming mortal musician, arrives at Mount Olympus Academy, he asks Persephone to help reunite him with his lost love, Eurydice, but trying to manipulate the rules of the underworld puts her at odds with her boyfriend, Hades.
Author
Series
Adventures of the Bailey School kids volume 30
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Could the dentist who has extra-large muscles and talks of being Champion of the World really be Hercules, the strongest man in the world?
270) Runemarks
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Maddy Smith, who bears the mysterious mark of a rune on her hand, learns she is destined to join the gods of Norse mythology and play a role in the fate of the world.
271) The lost hero
Author
Series
Heroes of Olympus volume 1
Publisher
Listening Library
Pub. Date
p2010.
Language
English
Description
Jason, Piper, and Leo, three students from a school for "bad kids," find themselves at Camp Half-Blood, where they learn that they are demigods and begin a quest to free Hera, who has been imprisoned by Mother Earth herself.
Author
Series
Tristan Strong volume 1
Language
English
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Seventh-grader Tristan Strong feels anything but strong ever since he failed to save his best friend when they were in a bus accident together. All he has left of Eddie is the journal his friend wrote stories in. Tristan is dreading the month he's going to spend on his grandparents' farm. But on his first night there, a sticky creature shows up and steals Eddie's notebook. Tristan chases after it, and a tug-of-war ensues between them underneath a...
273) Medusa
Author
Series
Myth of monsters volume 1
Language
English
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Description
A descendant of Medusa, Ava is sent to the Accademia del Forte in Venice after an altercation with a classmate, where she must learn to control her emotions, especially when she unearths a terrible secret that could change the world forever.
274) Medea
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Discover the full story of the sorceress Medea, one of the most reviled and maligned women of Greek antiquity, in this propulsive and evocative debut in the tradition of Circe, Elektra, and Stone Blind. Among the women of Greek mythology, the witch Medea may be the most despised. Known for the brutal act of killing her own children to exact vengeance on her deceitful husband, the Argonauts leader Jason, Medea has carved out a singularly infamous niche...
275) The Cassandra Curse
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Series
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"When a young Cuban American girl discovers that she's one of the nine muses of Greek mythology, she must use her newfound powers to help a brilliant classmate who is destined to save humanity"--
276) Elektra
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Elektra is a spellbinding reimagining of the story of one of Greek mythology's most infamous heroines, from Jennifer Saint, the author of the beloved international bestseller, Ariadne. Three women, tangled in an ancient curse. When Clytemnestra marries Agamemnon, she ignores the insidious whispers about his family line, the House of Atreus. But when, on the eve of the Trojan War, Agamemnon betrays Clytemnestra in the most unimaginable way, she must...
277) Zeus, god of thunder
Author
Series
Little Olympians volume 1
Publisher
Little Bee Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Zeus causes a ruckus while living with his parents, Kronos and Rhea, when every time he sneezes or gets mad his lightning shoots out, so they send him to Eureka, a camp where little gods learn to use their supernatural abilities, and with the help of other gods like the wise Athena and the wisecracking Hermes, little Zeus learns to control his own powers and succeed.
278) Origins of Olympus
Author
Series
Pegasus volume 4
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"A deadly plague has struck Olympus and is slowly aging and killing the Olympians. Emily can only stand by and watch as those she loves fade and die. But in one last desperate attempt to save those she loves, she journeys back to Earth to face the CRU, then back in time to confront Cronus, leader of the Titans and father of the gods"--
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Manchuria, 1908. In the last years of the dying Qing Empire, a courtesan is found frozen in a doorway. Her death is clouded by rumors of foxes, which are believed to lure people by transforming themselves into beautiful women and handsome men. Bao, a detective with an uncanny ability to sniff out the truth, is hired to uncover the dead woman's identity. Since childhood, Bao has been intrigued by the fox gods, yet they've remained tantalizingly out...
Author
Series
Legends of Olympus volume 1
Publisher
SparkPress
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Meet Phoebe Katz, a twelve-year-old foster kid from New York City who's been bounced around the system her entire life. Things happen around Phoebe, but it's not like they're her fault! But when a statue of Athena comes to life, Phoebe gets the stunning news she's the daughter of Zeus, has a twin brother named Perseus--and was sent away from ancient Greece as a baby to stop a terrible prophecy that predicted she would one day destroy Olympus. Athena...
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