Gilgamesh the Hero
8 best books like Gilgamesh the Hero (Geraldine McCaughrean): The Golden Goblet, Mara, Daughter of the Nile, Nicotine, Call It Courage, D'Aulaires' Book of Norse Myths, Swindle, Slightly Invisible, The Ch'i-lin Purse: A Collection of Ancient Chinese Stories
| Author | Eloise Jarvis McGraw |
I really liked this book when I was 11, and I really liked this book twenty-one years later. Somehow Eloise Jarvis McGraw makes Ranofer, the main character, easily relatable without turning him into a kid that thinks, talks and acts like a twentieth century American kid who happens to be living in ancient...
| Author | Eloise Jarvis McGraw |
| ISBN | 0140319298 |
Mara is a proud and beautiful slave girl who yearns for freedom. In order to gain it, she finds herself playing the dangerous role of double spy for two arch enemies - each of whom supports a contender for the throne of Egypt.
Against her will, Mara finds herself falling in love with one of her masters,...
| Author | Nell Zink |
| ISBN | 0008179174 |
From the much acclaimed author of Mislaid and The Wallcreeper, a fierce and audaciously funny novel of families—both the ones we’re born into and the ones we create—a story of obsession, idealism, and ownership, centered around a young woman who inherits her bohemian late father’s childhood...
| Author | Armstrong Sperry |
| ISBN | 0689713916 |
A boy tries to overcome his fear of the sea in this treasured classic and winner of the Newbery Medal.
Mafatu was afraid of the sea. It had taken his mother when he was a baby, and it seemed to him that the sea gods sought vengeance at having been cheated of Mafatu. So, though he was the son of the Great...
D'Aulaires' Book of Norse Myths
The Caldecott medal-winning d'Aulaires once again captivate their young audience with this beautifully illustrated introduction to Norse legends, telling stories of Odin the All-father, Thor the Thunder-god and the theft of his hammer, Loki the mischievous god of the Jotun Race, and Ragnarokk,...
| Author | Gordon Korman |
| ISBN | 0439903440 |
Ocean's 11... with 11-year-olds, in a super stand-alone heist caper from Gordon Korman!
After a mean collector named Swindle cons him out of his most valuable baseball card, Griffin Bing must put together a band of misfits to break into Swindle's compound and recapture the card. There are many...
| Author | Lauren Child |
| ISBN | 1408307901 |
I love, love, love Charlie and Lola. I love the typography and I love the vocabulary and I love the collage. I love especially how good Charlie is to his sister, and not just because he should or because he has to. He loves her and thinks she is very funny. And I love how Lola holds her own. How refreshing it is...
The Ch'i-lin Purse: A Collection of Ancient Chinese Stories
| Author | Linda Fang |
| ISBN | 0374411891 |
A Storytelling World magazine award winner
In turns funny, poignant, and wise, these nine lively stories are peopled with an array of unusual characters, including a young woman raised as a boy who is then faced with the complicated business of marriage; a carp-fish spirit who changes herself...
