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Trials of Apollo volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Cast down from Olympus and transformed into a human after angering Zeus, a weak and disoriented Apollo arrives in New York City as a regular teen and is forced to survive in the modern world while endeavoring to regain Zeus' favor.
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Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
How do you handle an encounter with Medusa on the New Jersey interstate? What's the best way to take down a minotaur? Become an expert on everything in Percy's world with this guide to the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. Complete with interviews, puzzles, games, and original short stories.
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Dark Olympus novels volume 3
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English
Description
"Achilles Kallis vowed that he'd do whatever it took to claw his way into Olympus's inner circle. Now that the former Ares is gone and the coveted role has opened to anyone with the strength to claim it, he and his partner, Patroclus Fotos, plan to both compete and double their odds of winning. Neither expect the infamous beauty Helen Kasios to be part of the prize...or for the sparks that fly when the three of them meet. Zeus may have decided Helen...
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Trials of Apollo volume 3
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
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English
Description
The formerly glorious god Apollo, cast down to Earth in punishment by Zeus, is now an awkward mortal teenager named Lester Papadopoulos. In order to regain his place on Mount Olympus, Lester must restore five Oracles that have gone dark. He has to achieve this impossible task without having any godly powers and while being duty bound to a confounding young daughter of Demeter named Meg.
5) Ilium
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The Trojan War rages at the foot of Olympos Mons on Mars — observed and influenced from on high by Zeus and his immortal family — and twenty-first-century professor Thomas Hockenberry is there to play a role in the insidious private wars of vengeful gods and goddesses. On Earth, a small band of the few remaining humans pursues a lost past and devastating truth — as four sentient machines depart from Jovian space to investigate,
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Trials of Apollo volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 15
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English
Description
Will the Greek god Apollo, cast down to Earth in the pathetic mortal form of a teenager named Lester Papadopoulos, finally regain his place on Mount Olympus? Lester's demigod friends at Camp Jupiter just helped him survive attacks from bloodthirsty ghouls, an evil Roman king and his army of the undead, and the lethal emperors Caligula and Commodus. Now the former god and his demigod master Meg must follow a prophecy uncovered by Ella the harpy. Lester's...
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"Persephone and Hades are engaged. In retaliation, Demeter summons a snowstorm that cripples New Greece, and refuses to lift the blizzard unless her daughter calls off her engagement. When the Olympians intervene, Persephone finds her future in the hands of ancient gods, and they are divided. Do they allow Persephone to marry Hades and go to war with Demeter or prohibit their union and take up arms against the God of the Dead? Nothing is certain but...
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Trials of Apollo volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Apollo's journey takes him to Camp Jupiter in the San Francisco Bay area, where the Roman demigods are preparing for a desperate last stand against the evil triumvirate of Roman emperors.
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Series
Olympus bound volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Manhattan has many secrets. Some are older than the city itself. Winter in New York: snow falls, lights twinkle, and a very disgruntled Selene DiSilva prowls the streets looking for prey. But when a dead body is discovered sprawled atop Wall Street's iconic Charging Bull statue, it's clear the NYPD can't solve the murder without help. The murder isn't just the work of another homicidal cult -- this time, someone's sacrificing the gods themselves....
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"Persephone is the Goddess of Spring by title only. The truth is, since she was a little girl, flowers have shriveled at her touch. After moving to New Athens, she hopes to lead an unassuming life disguised as a mortal journalist. Hades, God of the Dead, has built a gambling empire in the mortal world and his favorite bets are rumored to be impossible. After a chance encounter with Hades, Persephone finds herself in a contract with the God of the...
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Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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"Who cut off Medusa's head? Who was raised by a she-bear? Who tamed Pegasus? It takes a demigod to know, and Percy Jackson can fill you in on the all the daring deeds of Perseus, Atalanta, Bellerophon, and the rest of the major Greek heroes. Told in the funny, irreverent style readers have come to expect from Percy --
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Madeline Miller's Circe meets Cersei Lannister in a stunning debut following Clytemnestra, the most notorious heroine of the ancient world and the events that forged her into the legendary queen. As for queens, they are either hated or forgotten. She already knows which option suits her best ... You were born to a king, but you marry a tyrant. You stand by helplessly as he sacrifices your child to placate the gods. You watch him wage war on a foreign...
14) The immortals
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Series
Olympus bound volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A high quality contemporary fantasy novel that will appeal to a wide range of readers from American Gods to the kids who grew up reading Percy Jackson. The Relentless One, the Bearer of the Bow, the Untamed.....those are only a few of the names Selene DiSilva's answered to over the years. But these days she's content to work in secret, defending the women of Manhattan from the evils of men. She's reclusive, stubborn, and deeply unfriendly to everyone...
15) Amber & Clay
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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"In a warlike land of wind and sunlight, "ringed by a restless sea," live Rhaskos and Melisto, spiritual twins with little in common beyond the violent and mysterious forces that dictate their lives. A Thracian slave in a Greek household, Rhaskos is as common as clay, a stable boy worth less than a donkey, much less a horse. Wrenched from his mother at a tender age, he nurtures in secret, aided by Socrates, his passions for art and philosophy. Melisto...
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Heroes in training volume 9
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Zeus and the rest of the Olympians try to rescue Artemis from the clutches of a titan named Crius who has her under a sleeping spell.
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Series
Goddess girls. Main series volume 3
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
After giving Athena a makeover Aphrodite becomes jealous of her friend, but she focuses on figuring out how to help a mortal win a race against Atalanta, which will result in either their marriage or his death.
Author
Series
Heroes in training volume 4
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When the Titan Hyperion turns up the heat and starts throwing fireballs around, Olympians Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, Hera, and Demeter search for a mysterious Olympic torch and steal the flame to light it.
19) Dragon healer
Author
Series
Beasts of Olympus volume 4
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Demon must find and cure whatever is making the battle dragon of Ares, god of war so smelly--and sad--without the help of his magic medicine box.
20) Hound of Hades
Author
Series
Beasts of Olympus volume 2
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Having proven himself capable of caring for the mythical creatures that dwell on Olympus, eleven-year-old Demon is summoned by the great god Hades to the Underworld to tend to Cerberus, the three-headed dog Guardian of the Underworld, which has been beaten by Demon's nemesis, Heracles.
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