Hippolyta and the Curse of the Amazons
10 best books like Hippolyta and the Curse of the Amazons (Jane Yolen): The Golden Transcendence, Waiting for Odysseus, Rapunzel and the Lost Lagoon, A Well-Timed Enchantment, Batman Beyond 2.0, Vol. 1: Rewired, Season of Ponies, The Great God Pan, Dusssie, Shadow on the Sun, The Gauntlet Thrown
| Author | John C. Wright |
| ISBN | 0765349086 |
Begun with The Golden Age, continued with The Phoenix Exultant, and now concluding in The Golden Transcendence, The Golden Age trilogy is Grand Space Opera, an SF adventure saga in the tradition of A. E. Van Gogt, Roger Zelazny and Cordwainer Smith. It is an astounding story of super-science, a thrilling...
| Author | Clemence McLaren |
| ISBN | 0689867050 |
Four women.
Four stories.
One man's journey.
Odysseus. His epic tale has been told countless times, but rarely is it heard through the voices of the women who loved and served him. Penelope, Circe, Athena, Eurycleia: Theirs are the silent voices, the voices of longing, waiting, strength....
Rapunzel and the Lost Lagoon
| Author | Leila Howland |
| ISBN | 1484787234 |
Rapunzel is not your typical princess. For one thing, she has returned to her kingdom after eighteen years spent trapped in a tower and she's still getting to know her parents. For another, she has to get used to royal customs, like the proper ways to sit and curtsy, when she'd really rather climb a tree...
| Author | Vivian Vande Velde |
| ISBN | 0152049193 |
It's bad enough that Deanna has to waste her summer in France and her only friend is a mangy black cat, but now she's staring hopelessly into a well, trying to figure out what in the world to wish for.
Before she can make a wish, the cat scratches her, her watch falls into the well, and then . . . so has...
Batman Beyond 2.0, Vol. 1: Rewired
| Author | Kyle Higgins |
| ISBN | 1401250602 |
Rewire was aight, Langstrom was good.
World: I like the art, it's not quite the show and it has a more complex and serious tone to the art. I like it. The world building was solid, building upon the Night of Joker and moving the animated series world forward with characters. The call backs were also...
| Author | Zilpha Keatley Snyder |
| ISBN | 0440400066 |
This was a wonderful read, it could have been longer but we loved it. I would have loved to read this as a Child, the motherless girl with a love for horses, longing for friendship would have really appealed to me. Pamela lives with her Aunts, her mother died and her father works away. When she is given a necklace...
| Author | Donna Jo Napoli |
| ISBN | 0440229251 |
Pan, both goat and god, is a curious being who roams nature searching, wondering, and frolicking with maenads and satyrs. He plays melodies on his reed flute, wooing animals to listen. He is a creature of mystery and delight. One day in his travels, Pan meets Iphigenia, a human raised as the daughter of...
| Author | Nancy Springer |
| ISBN | 0802796494 |
Dusie always knew puberty was going to be confusing, but she never realized it was going to be catastrophic--until she wakes up one morning to find that her hair has turned into a writhing mass of slithering snakes and discovers the real truth about her family: her mother is a Gorgon--right out...
| Author | David Macinnis Gill |
| ISBN | 0062073354 |
Durango has always relied on Mimi--once his tough-as-nails squad leader, she is now the bitingly sarcastic artificial intelligence flash-cloned to his brain. Mimi is the only reason he is alive.
Durango has always looked out for his beautiful and brave second-in-command, Vienne--now...
Brydon's quest was simple. Borrow the fabled Gauntlet of Ven-Kerrick, bring it home to prove his worth, marry the princess, and ascend the throne.
He had planned for the dangerous terrain and Redolian assassins, but he did not expect the Gauntlet to be missing, nor to find the Kerrick royal...
A young shepherd, Corydon, is driven out of his village because of his unusual appearance and then captured and put on display as a monster. Alongside him in the traveling freak show are Medusa, the Minotaur, the Sphinx, and other classical beasts. When Corydon helps these monsters to escape their cages,...
The Iliad and the Odyssey
| Author | Marcia Williams |
| ISBN | 0763606448 |
The Iliad and the Odyssey, by Marcia Williams, is the retelling of the two most famous epics, by the same names. The Iliad starts with the marriage of king Peleus and the goddess Thetis, which later have a child by the name Achilles. In Troy, king Priam and Queen Hecuba also have a child, by the name of Paris....
| Author | Susan Maupin Schmid |
| ISBN | 0553533746 |
Inside an enchanted castle, there’s a closet—a closet with one hundred magical dresses that only Darling Dimple can wear. Each one disguises her as somebody else.
It turns out that Darling needs disguises. A thief is on the loose! Someone is causing an uproar among the servants—moving...
| Author | James Kennedy |
| ISBN | 0385905246 |
JO LAROUCHE HAS lived her 13 years in the California desert with her Aunt Lily, ever since she was dropped on Lily’s doorstep with this note: This is Jo. Please take care of her. But beware. This is a dangerous baby. At Lily’s annual Christmas costume party, a variety of strange events take place that...
| Author | Penelope Lively |
| ISBN | 0385729375 |
A glorious gift book from an award-winning storyteller and a much lauded illustrator, who evoke the high drama of mythical Greece and the prehistory of Rome in this retelling of "The Aeneid."
Taking his old father on his back and his young son by the hand, Aeneas flees the sacked city of Troy, entrusted...
| Author | Janet Benge |
| ISBN | 1576581373 |
This is actually juvenile nonfiction, so it’s fine for MG and up. It’s 200 pages, so I’m sure there are more detailed biographies out there, but this one gives a great overview of Liddell’s life.
Liddell is most famous for winning Olympic gold medals and refusing to race on Sunday. How...
Ultimo atto al Teatro dell'Opera
| Author | Irene Adler |
| ISBN | 8856618842 |
Irene, Sherlock e Lupin hanno appuntamento a Londra. Ma Lupin non si presenta: suo padre Théophraste è in arresto, accusato di furto e dell'omicidio di Alfredo Santi, segretario del grande compositore Giuseppe Barzini. I ragazzi avviano un'indagine per scagionarlo e il salvataggio della celebre...
| Author | Mary Pope Osborne |
| ISBN | 0786809299 |
Odysseus and his men have defeated the one-eyed giant, but its curse follows them at every turn. Cast out to the open seas by the wind god, Odysseus and his fleet continue the difficult journey home. But they cannot return to Ithaca yet. First they must take on giant cannibals and outwit a beautiful witch,...
| Author | Suzanne Selfors |
| ISBN | 0316401366 |
Darling Charming is bored in Damsel-In-Distressing class. She'd much rather be in Hero Training with her brothers. The only thing is, she has secretly been helping her brother Dexter ace the class. If anyone finds out, a scandal would erupt at Ever After High. One of the most prestigious families in...
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With Drug and Drop Volume 2, we finally get some long awaited answers about Kazahaya's and Rikuo's pasts. Specifically, the two boys do something unprecedented in a manga: they actually sit down and tell each other about...
| Author | Kate Thompson |
| ISBN | 0786814225 |
With her fifteenth birthday approaching, Tess is running out of time. She must decide who -- or what -- she will become when she makes the final Switch of her life. To make the impossible decision even worse, she finds herself shipped off to relatives in the country, miles from home, her parents, and, most...
| Author | Bruce Coville |
| ISBN | 0671892495 |
I really enjoy Bruce Coville novels. This man knows how to write for youngsters. He doesn't write down to them, he challenges them, but manages to keep it within their own reading ability.
I just finished reading this aloud to my boys at bedtime. As one might expect, they love the action and adventure,...
