Athena: Grey-Eyed Goddess

10 best books like Athena: Grey-Eyed Goddess (George O'Connor): Foiled, The Stonekeeper's Curse, The Cloud Searchers, The Last Council, Prince of the Elves, Calamity Jack, The Unsinkable Walker Bean, The Thief and the Sword, Binky to the Rescue, The Shadow Children: Among the Hidden; Among the Impostors

Foiled

Author	Jane Yolen
ISBN	1596432799

This review is for both books in the series, Foiled and Curses! Foiled Again. I read them one right after another, so they do sort of blend together a bit in my mind. For what it's worth, I'm shelving it as both middle grade and young adult because I feel like it straddles that very hazy line between the two...

The Stonekeeper's Curse

Author	Kazu Kibuishi
ISBN	0439846838

In this thrilling sequel to AMULET #1: THE STONEKEEPER, Emily and her brother Navin head for Kanalis, a beautiful and mysterious city of waterfalls, where they hope to find the antidote for the poison that felled their mother. That cure lies in the eggs of a giant serpent atop Demon's Head Mountain, but...

The Cloud Searchers

Author	Kazu Kibuishi
ISBN	0545208858

An impossible journey with danger at every turn...

Emily, Navin, and their crew of resistance fighters charter an airship and set off in search of the lost city of Cielis. There they hope to find help from the Guardian Council's powerful Stonekeepers. It's a mission that Alledia's survival...

The Last Council

Author	Kazu Kibuishi
ISBN	0545208874

Kazu Kibuishi's thrilling, NEW YORK TIMES bestselling series continues!

Emily and her friends think they'll find the help they need in Cielis, but something isn't right. Streets that were once busy are deserted, and the townspeople who are left live in crippling fear. Emily is escorted to...

Prince of the Elves

Author	Kazu Kibuishi
ISBN	0545208890

THE ENEMY GROWS STRONGER...

Emily survived the chaos of the Guardian Academy, but Max Griffin has stolen the Mother Stone. With it, the Elf King forges new Amulets that will give him the power to invade and destroy the nation of Windsor. Emily and her friends lead the soldiers of the Cielis Guard...

Calamity Jack

Author	Shannon Hale
ISBN	1599900769

Jack likes to think of himself as a criminal mastermind...with an unfortunate amount of bad luck. A schemer, plotter, planner, trickster, swindler...maybe even thief? One fine day Jack picks a target a little more giant than the usual, and one little bean turns into a great big building-destroying...

The Unsinkable Walker Bean

Author	Aaron Renier
ISBN	1596434538

Walker Bean never wanted to be a high-seas pirate waging a pitched battle against the forces of the deep. It just worked out that way.

Mild, meek, and a little geeky, Walker is always happiest in his grandfather's workshop, messing around with his inventions. But when his beloved grandfather...

The Thief and the Sword

Author	Mike Maihack
ISBN	0606370250

Cleopatra's space adventure in the REALLY far future continues!

When a mysterious thief steals the ancient sword Cleo recovered in Cleopatra In Space, Book One: Target Practice, Cleo is determined to get it back, but her teachers at Yasiro Academy forbid her from risking her life. Stuck at...

Binky to the Rescue

Author	Ashley Spires
ISBN	1554535026

While in hot pursuit of an alien invader (a bug), Binky accidentally falls out the space station porthole (bathroom window) and finds himself in outer space (outside) for the very first time. But just as Binky begins to explore, he discovers that his copilot, Ted (stuffed mousie), is trapped beneath...

The Shadow Children: Among the Hidden; Among the Impostors

Author	Margaret Peterson Haddix
ISBN	1416990275

In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke, an illegal third child, has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm.

In Among the Hidden, Luke discovers the existence of another shadow child, and his world is turned...

Lafayette!

Author	Nathan Hale
ISBN	1419731483

The Frenchman who changed the course of the American Revolution.

Gilbert du Motier became the Marquis de Lafayette at a young age, but he was not satisfied with the comforts of French nobility—he wanted adventure!

A captain at eighteen and a major general by nineteen, he was eager...