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10 best books like Corydon and the Island of Monsters (Tobias Druitt): Search for the Lost Kingdom, Undue Influence: A Persuasion Retelling, Snakehead, Daughter of Kura, Watching the Roses, The Moon Riders, Hippolyta and the Curse of the Amazons, Glint, Day of the Scarab, قاموس أساطير العالم

Search for the Lost Kingdom
AuthorT.L. Wood
ISBN0976351080
Welcome to the mysterious world of Eldohr, where the land is vast and colorful. This world was once reigned by two royal kingdoms who were friends and allies. Castlegrove to the north, Greengate to the south. A terrible dragon, Alibastizor, has destroyed all dreams of these kingdoms ruling together...
Undue Influence: A Persuasion Retelling
AuthorJenny Holiday
Second chances only come around once.
Eight years ago, Adam Elliot made the biggest mistake of his life. Now that mistake is coming back to haunt him. His family’s beloved vineyard has gone into foreclosure, and the new owner is the sister of the only man he’s ever loved—the man he dumped...
Snakehead
AuthorAnn Halam
ISBN1842552694
PERSEUS, THE GOD-TOUCHED son of Zeus and a mortal princess, takes his easy life on the island of Serifos for granted, but he knows he lives in troubled times. First the gods, now the politicians, send trouble rumbling across land and sea.
When a beautiful stranger, a fugitive from another disaster...
Daughter of Kura
AuthorDebra Austin
ISBN1439112665
"At first, Snap was aware of a few background noises -- a baby cried, the fire crackled, one of the older children laughed. Eventually, the other sounds disappeared, and she heard only the ancient rhythm of the drums, the dancers' voices, and the sounds of her own feet as they beat a path to an unclear future."On...
Watching the Roses
AuthorAdèle Geras
ISBN0152055312
In this retelling of "Sleeping Beauty," Alice seems destined to lead a princess's life--except for the frightening curse that dreaded Aunt Violette bestowed at her christening: She will die at the age of eighteen. Although she lives, something horrible happens on her eighteenth birthday. And as...
The Moon Riders
AuthorTheresa Tomlinson
ISBN0060847360
Myrina has prepared for thirteen years to join the Moon Riders—learning the sacred dances, the art of using a weapon, and listening to her mother and grandmother's tales of their time spent with the Moon-maidens. Finally, the day arrives when she will leave her family and devote herself to the Old...
Hippolyta and the Curse of the Amazons
AuthorJane Yolen
ISBN0064408485
Hippolyta is a true amazon. Proud and brave, she lives for the thrill of the hunt and for the friendship of her fellow female warriors. Then, because her mother demands it and in defiance of the laws of her people, she must take her newborn brother to his father in Troy, where she finds herself in terrible...
Glint
AuthorAnn Coburn
ISBN0060847239
Ellie and her little brother Danny spend their lonely days making up stories about a young girl in a world of dragons and shape-shifters, a girl as brave and cunning as "they" would like to be. Five years later Danny disappears. The police have no clues. They fear he is dead, but Ellie knows better. She also...
Day of the Scarab
AuthorCatherine Fisher
ISBN0060571632
How will their struggle end?

Madness reigns in the Two Lands. General Argelin has proclaimed himself king and is systematically destroying all enemies -- humans . . . and gods.

Mirany, the young priestess, is in hiding.

Alexos, the boy who should be ruler, is powerless.

Seth...
قاموس أساطير العالم
AuthorArthur Cotterell
ISBN9789334074
أصل الأسطورة:
إن الاهتمام الحديث بالأسطورة بشكل اعترافاً عاماً بقوة هذه القصص الشعرية، ولكن لازال هناك عدم اتفاق على مدى قوة الأسطورة فأفلاطون مثلاً...
Dogboy
AuthorChristopher Russell
ISBN0060841168
Brind

Discovered as a baby in Sir Edmund's kennels, Brind has grown up with the mastiffs. He plays with them, eats with them, and sleeps in their den. Brind understands dogs better than he understands any human.

Glaive

The largest and most powerful dog in the pack, Glaive is...
Ugly
AuthorDonna Jo Napoli
ISBN0786837535
Ugly just isn't like the other ducklings in the clutch. His neck is too long. He's stays underwater for "too many" seconds. He keeps climbing onto Mother's back whenever he's afraid. So when all the other ducks of Dove Lake turn against him, Ugly's mother has no choice but to protect her family and leave...
Ella Mental: And the Good Sense Guide
AuthorAmber Deckers
Reviewed by Randstostipher "tallnlankyrn" Nguyen for TeensReadToo.com

Meet Ella Watson, or, as her friends call her, Ella Mental.

Ella makes sure that she follows and lives by everything written in her Good Sense Guide, the one with all the quotes and rules, such as "Treat others...
The Phantom Queen Awakes
AuthorMark S. Deniz
ISBN9197760595
The Phantom Queen, goddess of death, love and war, returns to strike fear into the hearts of mortals in the anthology, The Phantom Queen Awakes. Meet a washerwoman on the shores of the river; cleaning the clothes of the soon-to-be-dead; try to bargain with the capricious goddess of war; hear the songs...
Obsession: An Erotic Tale
AuthorGloria Vanderbilt
ISBN0061734896
The marriages of desire . . .

From the multitalented and versatile Gloria Vanderbilt comes a passionate, sensual, witty, and puzzling tale of erotic obsession, beauty, and revenge, told in tandem by two women obsessed with the same man—and, ultimately, with each other.

Talbot...
That Girl Lucy Moon
AuthorAmy Timberlake
ISBN0786852984
Lucy Moon is the kind of girl who loudly supports animal rights—during hunting season. She wears a woven cap made of hemp in support of third world workers. Lucy Moon is the kind of girl who spots injustice and isn't afraid to fight it. So when two of her classmates are caught sledding on Wiggins Hill and...
We Are SO Crashing Your Bar Mitzvah!
AuthorFiona Rosenbloom
ISBN0786838906
I really enjoyed this book. It was a little juvenile at times because it was written for a preteen, not someone my age but once I started reading it, it was so hard to put down! I liked how it touches base on some of girls biggest problems of middle school. Eight grade is a really hard time for girls and everyone...
Fabulous Nobodies
AuthorLee Tulloch
ISBN0060797169
Before Bridget Jones, Carrie Bradshaw, and the Shopaholic, it was a world of Fabulous Nobodies

Now, back in print after fifteen years, it’s your chance to experience this hysterically wild cult-status novel for the first time.

Get ready to meet:

Reality Nirvana Tuttle
A...
Someone Like Summer
AuthorM.E. Kerr
ISBN0061140996
Annabel first sees him playing soccer near her house. His name is Esteban--she sees it on the back of his team shirt. He notices her, smiles, then looks back over his shoulder at her again.

It is the beginning of summer in the resort town of Seaview. It is also the start of a romance between a young...
Songs on Bronze
AuthorNigel Spivey
ISBN0374530378
A vivid, uninhibited retelling of the classic Greek stories

Songs on Bronze is the first major retelling of Greek mythology in half a century; a set of lively, racy, dramatic versions of the great myths, which, in a multicultural society, are recognized more than ever as stories without equal.

Most...
The Ghost of Grania O'Malley
AuthorMichael Morpurgo
ISBN0749746912
People on Clare Island say that the Big Hill is haunted by fearsome pirates who once terrorized Ireland's coasts. Jessie senses that the Hill possess a magic special enough to give her the strength to deal with a crippling disease. That magic takes physical shape when the ghost of pirate queen Grania...
Blistered
AuthorDeidre Huesmann
Bearing the Curse

Azalee wants a home—one that isn’t a cold, dirty prison deep within the earth. Even if she wanted to escape, she can’t walk in sunlight. Her skin will burn and flay, blistered by a god.

Defying the Fates

Joel wants to get her somewhere safe. Both are outcasts,...
Clover Twig and the Magical Cottage
AuthorKaye Umansky
ISBN1596435070
This is a very fun adventure story. I'd say it's intended for a middle grade audience, but I had fun reading it even though I'm not in that age group.

Clover Twig is an ordinary girl and a very bossy older sister. But since most of the book does not take place while she's at her home, by the end we forget...
Beryl: A Pig's Tale
AuthorJane Simmons
ISBN0316044105
When Beryl decides to look for a family that will love her just the way she is, from her pig nose to her curly tail, she bravely sets off on a journey that will ultimately change her life forever.
Away from the cruel and ill-tempered pigs on the farm where she grew up, Beryl finds her preconceived notions...
The Ratastrophe Catastrophe
AuthorDavid Lee Stone
ISBN0786851295
Diek Wutspah is a normal shepard boy. That is until a dark, evil magic roots itself within him instilling him with the power to charm man and beast with his magic flute. When the ancient town of Illmoor is plagued by an infestation of giant rats, Diek offers to lead the rodents to their doom. But when the dim-witted...
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