It Might as Well Be Greek…Mythology From Around the World

 

Psyche in a Dress by Francesca Lia Block (YA FIC BLO)
A young woman, Psyche, searches for her lost love and questions her true self in a modern retelling of Greek myths.

 

Oh. My. Gods. by Tera Lynn Childs (YA FIC CHI)
When her mother suddenly decides to marry a near-stranger, Phoebe, whose passion is running, soon finds herself living on a remote Greek island, completing her senior year at an ancient high school where the students and teachers are all descended from gods or goddesses. First in a series.

 

Goddess of Yesterday by Caroline B. Cooney (YA FIC COO)
Taken from her home on an Aegan island as a six-year-old girl, Anaxandra calls on the protection of her goddess as she poses as two different princesses over the next six years, before ending up as a servant in the company of Helen and Paris as they make their way to Troy.

 

The Summoning by Lynne Ewing (YA FIC EWI)
Three fifteen-year-old girls living in Washington D.C. learn that they are the direct descendants of Egyptian pharoahs, with special powers that will allow them to battle demonic members of the Cult of Anubis, who are trying to return the universe to the chaos from which it sprung. First in a series.

 

The Sea of Trolls by Nancy Farmer (YA FIC FAR)
After Jack becomes apprenticed to a Druid bard, he and his little sister Lucy are captured by Viking Berserkers and taken to the home of King Ivar the Boneless and his half-troll queen, leading Jack to undertake a vital quest to Jotunheim, home of the trolls. First in a series.

 

Nobody’s Princess by Ester Friesner (YA FIC FRI)
Determined to fend for herself in a world where only men have real freedom, headstrong Helen, who will be called queen of Sparta and Helen of Troy one day, learns to fight, hunt, and ride horses while disguised as a boy, and goes on an adventure throughout the Mediterranean world. First in a series.

 

Troy by Adele Geras (YA FIC GER)
Told from the point of view of the women of Troy, portrays the last weeks of the Trojan War, when women are sick of tending the wounded, men are tired of fighting, and bored gods and goddesses find ways to stir things up.

 

Snakehead by Ann Halam (YA FIC HAL)
Compelled by his father Zeus to accept the evil king Polydectes's challenge to bring the head of the monstrous Medusa to the Aegean island of Serifos, Perseus, although questioning the gods' interference in human lives, sets out, accompanied by his beloved Andromeda, a princess with her own harsh destiny to fulfill.

 

Runemarks by Joanne Harris (YA FIC HAR)
Maddy Smith, who bears the mysterious mark of a rune on her hand, learns that she is destined to join the gods of Norse mythology and play a role in the fate of the world.

 

Pandora Gets Jealous by Carolyn Hennesy (YA FIC HEN)
Thirteen-year-old Pandy is hauled before Zeus and given six months to gather all of the evils that were released when the box she brought to school as her annual project was accidentally opened.

 

The Iliad by Homer (883 HOM)
Homer's classical account of the war between the Greeks and the Trojans from Agamemnon's visit by the priest Chryses to the burial of Hektor.

 

The Odyssey by Homer (883 HOM)
Odysseus's reliance on his wit and wiliness for survival in his encounters with divine and natural forces during his ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War is at once a timeless human story and an individual test of moral endurance.

 

Feathered by Laura Kasischke (YA FIC KAS)
While exploring ruins during Spring Break in Mexico, high-school seniors and best friends Anne and Michelle accept the wrong ride and Michelle is lost--seemingly forever.

 

Lost in the Labyrinth by Patrice Kindl (YA KIN)
Fourteen-year-old Princess Xenodice tries to prevent the death of her half-brother, the Minotaur, at the hands of the Athenian prince, Theseus, who is aided by Icarus, Daedalus, and her sister Ariadne.

 

The Night Tourist by Katherine Marsh (YA MAR)
After fourteen-year-old classics prodigy Jack Perdu has a near fatal accident he meets Euri, a young ghost who introduces him to New York's Underworld, where those who died in New York reside until they are ready to move on, and Jack vows to find his dead mother there. First in a series.

 

Inside the Walls of Troy: A novel of the women who lived the Trojan War
by Clemence McLaren (YA FIC MCL)
The events surrounding the famous battle between the Greeks and the Trojans are told from the points of view of two women, the beautiful Helen and the prophetic Cassandra.

 

The Great God Pan by Donna Jo Napoli (YA FIC NAP)
A retelling of the Greek myths about Pan, both goat and god, whose reed flute frolicking leads him to a meeting with Iphigenia, a human raised as the daughter of King Agamemnon and Queen Clytemnestra.

 

Sirena by Donna Jo Napoli (YA FIC NAP)
The gods grant immortality to the mermaid Sirena when she rescues a human man from the sea and they fall in love, but his mortality creates great conflict between love and honor when he is called to defend Greece in the Trojan War.

 

We Goddesses: Athena, Aphrodite, Hera by Doris Orgel (YA FIC ORG)
Three Greek goddesses, Athena, Aphrodite, and Hera, tell their own stories.

 

The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan (YA FIC RIO)
Twelve-year-old Percy Jackson learns he is a demigod, the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea. His mother sends him to a summer camp for demigods where he and his new friends set out on a quest to prevent a war between the gods. First in a series.

 

The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel by Michael Scott (YA FIC SCO)
While working mundane summer jobs, twins Sophie and Josh find themselves caught in an ancient struggle between rival alchemists over the possession of a powerful book. First in a series.

 

A Thousand Ships: The Age of Bronze Vol. 1 by Eric Shanower (YA GRAPHIC NOVEL SHA)
Draws on ancient myths, medieval romances, and modern scholarship to offer a graphic novel portraying the Trojan War, from the kidnapping of Queen Helen by Paris to the gathering of the ancient kings of Greece to retrieve her.

 

Middleworld: The Jaguar Stones Trilogy by J. & P. Voelkel (YA FIC VOE)
When Max Murphy discovers that his archaeologist parents have mysteriously disappeared while excavating an ancient Mayan site in Central America, he sets off in search of them, with the assistance of a Mayan girl named Lola.

 

To check the status of a book or to place your name on the waiting list, please use the Library Catalog (www.skpl.org), call the library at 789-1555 or ask at the Reference Desk.

 

List created by for the South Kingstown Public Library by Brandi Kenyon.

Last updated 10/09.