Gods and Goddesses: More Mythological Fiction for Young Readers
Explore captivating tales of gods and goddesses with our top mythological fiction books for young readers. Perfect for sparking imagination and love for ancient myths!
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Quicksilver
by Stephanie Spinner
Hermes—also known as Mercury, Wayfinder, and Prince of Thieves—has many talents. Wearing his famed winged sandals, he does the bidding of his father Zeus, leads the dead down to Hades, and practices his favorite arts of trickery and theft. He also sees the future, travels invisibly, loves jokes, and abhors violence. And he’s an entertaining and ideal narrator on a fast-paced journey through ancient Greek mythology—from Medusa’s cave to Trojan War battlefields to the mysterious Underworld. Stephanie Spinner brings the famous messenger—and the best-known gods and mortals of mythology—to life with high action and spare, powerful prose.
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The Fire Thief
by Terry Deary
International best-selling author Terry Deary reinvents the myth of Prometheus, the Titan who stole fire from the gods and gave it to the human race. To escape the gods' revenge, Prometheus travels through time to a murky metropolis called Eden City. There, he befriends a motley assortment of comic characters and learns what humans have done with his gift of fire. Enter our narrator: Jim, a young orphan, actor, aspiring novelist, and petty criminal who rids the wealthy of their worldly possessions. With the help of Jim, Terry Deary masterfully interweaves two plots, with the action jumping at a whirlwind pace from Mount Olympus to the seedy taverns and elegant mansions of Victorian Eden City. Prometheus has a soft spot for humans in need, but using his powers to get his new friends out of trouble will betray his hiding place to the gods! Using humorous footnotes, shameless puns, and literary references to everyone from Dickens to Poe, Terry Deary has created an original work that will have readers laughing out loud.
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The Unnameables
by Ellen Booraem
A boy and a goatman defy the establishment in a whimsical fantasy about belonging, the dangers of forgetting history, the Usefulness of art, and the importance of wind control.
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Radiant Darkness
by Emily Whitman
He smiles. "Hello." It's a deep voice. I can feel it reverberate in my chest and echo all the way down to my toes. I know I should leave, but I don't want to. I want to keep my senses like this forever. I'm all eye, all ear, all skin. Persephone lives in the most gorgeous place in the world. But her mother's a goddess, as overprotective as she is powerful. Paradise has become a trap. Just when Persephone feels there's no chance of escaping the life that's been planned for her, a mysterious stranger arrives. A stranger who promises something more—something dangerous and exciting—something that spurs Persephone to make a daring choice. A choice that could destroy all she's come to love, even the earth itself. In a land where a singing river can make you forget your very name, Persephone is forced to discover who—and what—she really is.
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Odd and the Frost Giants
by Neil Gaiman
In this inventive, short, yet perfectly formed novel inspired by traditional Norse mythology, Neil Gaiman takes readers on a wild and magical trip to the land of giants and gods and back. In a village in ancient Norway lives a boy named Odd, and he's had some very bad luck: His father perished in a Viking expedition; a tree fell on and shattered his leg; the endless freezing winter is making villagers dangerously grumpy. Out in the forest Odd encounters a bear, a fox, and an eagle—three creatures with a strange story to tell. Now Odd is forced on a stranger journey than he had imagined—a journey to save Asgard, city of the gods, from the Frost Giants who have invaded it. It's going to take a very special kind of twelve-year-old boy to outwit the Frost Giants, restore peace to the city of gods, and end the long winter. Someone cheerful and infuriating and clever . . . Someone just like Odd .
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Waiting for Odysseus
by Clemence McLaren
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. They are the women who moved him and motivated him. And now they shed new light on his age-old journey.
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The Coming of Dragons
by A.J. Lake
Two eleven-year-olds named Edmund and Elspeth discover that they have been given fantastic gifts to use against the ancient and evil forces that have been awakened by powerful magic during the Dark Ages in Great Britain.
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The King and the Fire Chanter
by Arran Wend
A mythological adventure with echos of Sumerian, Vedic-Sanskrit and ancient Persian legend. Fleeing for their lives, Shane and Mia discover their mysterious connection to a royal king of the past and his vision to reestablish the lost kingdom. They face both the complexities of the modern world and the insane plots of an ancient mage who set a trap to snare them. It is a heart-stopping race to decipher the riddles left by the mage before the mage destroys them and their new world.
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Inside the Walls of Troy
by Clemence McLaren
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.
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City of Fire
by Laurence Yep
Twelve-year-old Scirye and her companions travel to Houlani, a new Hawaiian island created by magic, where they enlist the help of volcano goddess Pele in an attempt to stop an evil dragon and a mysterious man from altering the universe.
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The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid
by Rick Riordan
One night, Dr. Kane brings the siblings together for a "research experiment" at the British Museum, where he hopes to set things right for his family. Instead, he unleashes the Egyptian god Set, who banishes him to oblivion and forces the children to flee for their lives.
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Fire Dreams
by Mallory Loehr
While visiting their grandparents' farm, Joe, Polly, and Sam are called by the magic of fire to go to Mount Olympus to repay a debt to Prometheus. Simultaneous.
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Earth Magic
by Mallory Loehr
While visiting their grandparents' farm, Polly and Sam and their young cousin are drawn to an unusual rock that seems to want their help.
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Aphrodite's Blessings
by Clemence McLaren
Atalanta, Andromeda, and Psyche, three female characters in Greek mythology, tell the stories of their marriages. Includes information on love and marriage in ancient Greece.
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Snake Dreamer
by Priscilla Galloway
Dusa Thrasman is 16 years old and in trouble. Snakes haunt her dreams, leaving her afraid, exhausted, and ill. Her doctor has tried everything. Then Dusa sees a TV interview with two doctors, the Gordon sisters. Their specialty: curing snake dreamers. But in order to be treated, she must go with the Gordons to their remote clinic on an isolated Greek island.When Dusa arrives at the clinic, the only people there are a strange boy named Perse and his father, the Gordons' servants. Perse tries to warn Dusa about the Gordons, but his English is hard to understand. Can he really mean that they haven't aged in a hundred years? And who was their sister, the original snake dreamer, the one they want to make whole again?
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The Reluctant God
by Pamela F. Service
"Service smoothly weaves fantasy with historical information, heightening the effect with an exciting plot." BOOKLIST Lorna Padgett, an archeologist's daughter, has inherited her father's love for ancient Egypt. Ameni lived over four thousand years ago. The son of a Pharoah, he loved adventure but had no idea what destiny the gods were holding for him. These two should never have met. But a walk in the hills near her father's dig leads Lorna into strange territory--and to an ancient discovery that brings timeless adventure, mystery, and danger....
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Lost Souls: Burning Sky
by Jordan Weisman
In this first book in a new trilogy created by new media genius Jordan Weisman, Nathan Richards is your typical teen, one of the smartest at his school and the son of two famous archeologists, but he fails at everything because he refuses to apply himself. Never knowing his mother, who died on an archeological dig in a Mayan tomb while giving birth to him, Nathan is shocked, when on his thirteenth birthday he receives his birthright from the Mayan god Kukulkan. He is granted the ability to travel the frequencies and interact with the dead—including his mother! Now the fate of the human race rests with Nathan, who must play a game for the world’s survival—all culminating with the end of the Mayan calendar on December 21, 2012. Now it is time for Nathan to use his newfound gifts, fulfill his potential, and save the world!
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When Half-gods Go
by Hannelore Valencak
Having separated from her boyfriend during their travels in Greece, a seventeen-year-old German girl meets an enchanting young man with an uncanny resemblance to the Greek god, Hermes.
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Voyages
by Doris Buchanan Smith
While immobilized in a hospital bed, Janessa journeys into a world of dreamlike adventures with the gods of Norse legend.
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The Dawn Palace
by H. M. Hoover
Having been trained in supernatural knowledge, thirteen-year-old Medea finds herself in a unique position to help when the Greek hero Jason comes to her father's kingdom in search of the Golden Fleece.
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The Dragon and the Thief
by Gillian Bradshaw
In ancient Egypt an unlucky young man meets a wealthy dragon and together they find dangerous but exciting adventure.