Percy Jackson and the Olympians Read Alikes

City of Dogs

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Author: 
Livi Michael
Call #: 
MIC
Location: Junior Fiction
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Sam has always wanted a dog, but Jenny is a dog like no other. She has come from another world—a parallel world of mythology, where the whims of the gods decide the course of Destiny. Jenny fled in terror after her attempt to save the life of her first beloved boy interrupted the gods’ plans for a battle for control of the world. But now her escape threatens Sam’s world as well. So Jenny has to convince her motley pack of dog friends—tiny Pico, giant Gentleman Jim, slow-moving Boris, excitable Checkers, and nervous Flo—that it’s their destiny to restore the worlds to order before it’s too late. Norse mythology, a huge respect for the hearts and minds of dogs, and many dashes of humor combine to tell the tale of a grand, epic quest to save the world for humans, gods, and dogs.

City of Fire

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Author: 
Laurence Yep
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J YEP
Location: Junior Fiction
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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.

Corydon & the island of monsters

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Author: 
Tobias Druitt
Call #: 
J DRU
Location: Junior Fiction
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Corydon, an outcast Greek boy with the leg of a goat, learns that he is part of an old prophecy and joins forces with Medusa and other "monsters" known in Greek mythology in a confrontation with mortal heroes fighting for the Olympian gods.

Happenstance Found

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Author: 
P. W. Cattanese
Call #: 
J CAT
Location: Junior Fiction
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A boy awakens, blindfolded, with no memory of even his name, but soon meets Lord Umber, an adventurer and inventor, who calls him Happenstance and tells him that he has a very important destiny--and a powerful enemy.

Pandora Gets Jealous

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Author: 
Carolyn Hennesy
Call #: 
J HEN
Location: Junior Fiction
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Thirteen-year-old Pandy is hauled before Zeus and given six months to gather all of the evils that were released when the box she brought to school as her annual project was accidentally opened.

Runemarks

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Author: 
Joanne Harris
Call #: 
J HAR
Location: Junior Fiction
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Maddy Smith, who bears the mysterious mark of a rune on her hand, learns that she is destined to join the gods of Norse mythology and play a role in the fate of the world.

Secret of the sirens

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Author: 
Julia Golding
Call #: 
J GOL
Location: Junior Fiction
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Upon moving to her aunt's seaside home in the British Isles, Connie becomes part of a secret society that shelters mythical creatures, and must use her ability to communicate with these beings to protect them from evil and the incursions of humans.

Skulduggery Pleasant (Scepter of the Ancients)

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Author: 
Derek Landy
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J LAN
Location: Junior Fiction
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When twelve-year-old Stephanie inherits her weird uncle's estate, she must join forces with Skulduggery Pleasant, a skeleton mage, to save the world from the Faceless Ones.

The Awakening

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Author: 
Michael Carroll
Call #: 
J CAR
Location: Junior Fiction
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It has been ten years since the great battle that wiped out all the superhumans. Whether they all died that day or simply lost their powers and blended back into society, only one thing is certain: They are gone. Or are they? Thirteen-year-olds Danny and Colin have recently begun changing. How can they explain Danny's newfound ability to move at the speed of light, or Colin's surprising strength? They can't, but their parents--the lost generation of superhumans--can. They have been watching and waiting for these changes. So have others, and not everyone is happy about the boys' new powers. Some will do anything to stop them. Michael Carroll delivers an action-packed story in the tradition of the Alex Rider Adventures and the X-Men, with enough twists and intrigue to keep the pages flying by.

The dark is rising

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Author: 
Susan Cooper
Call #: 
COO
Location: Junior Fiction
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On his eleventh birthday Will Stanton discovers that he is the last of the Old Ones, destined to seek the six magical Signs that will enable the Old Ones to triumph over the evil forces of the Dark.

The hound of Rowan

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Author: 
Henry H. Neff
Call #: 
J NEF
Location: Junior Fiction
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After glimpsing a hint of his destiny in a mysterious tapestry, twelve-year-old Max McDaniels becomes a student at Rowan Academy, where he trains in "mystics and combat" in preparation for war with an ancient enemy that has been kidnapping children like him.

The ruins of Gorlan

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Author: 
John Flanagan
Call #: 
J FLA
Location: Junior Fiction
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When fifteen-year-old Will is rejected by battleschool, he becomes the reluctant apprentice to the mysterious Ranger Halt, and winds up protecting the kingdom from danger.

The thief

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by Megan Whalen Turner
Call #: 
J TUR
Location: Junior Fiction
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Gen flaunts his ingenuity as a thief and relishes the adventure which takes him to a remote temple of the gods where he will attempt to steal a precious stone.

Tomorrow's magic

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Author: 
Pamela F. Service
Call #: 
J SER
Location: Junior Fiction
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Two novels in which a young, resurrected Merlin and two friends attempt to bring King Arthur back to Britain, then struggle against the evil plots of Morgan Le Fey to build a new and better civilization in the wake of a nuclear holocaust.