Lists and Suggestions for Kids

List: If you like The Lightning Thief try...

Kerr, Philip.

When twelve-year-old twins Philippa and John discover that they are descended from a long line of dj...

Scott, Michael,

While working at pleasant but mundane summer jobs in San Francisco, fifteen-year-old twins, Sophie a...

Abouzeid, Chris.

In the realm from which the Greek gods ruled the universe thousands of years ago, the immortal witch...

Lerangis, Peter.

Also available on Overdrive and as an audiobook on Hoopla. Teens Jack, Marco, Aly, and Cass begin...

Lee, Stan, 1922- author.

Also available on Overdrive. Follows the experiences of a Chinese-American teen who is thrown into ...

Wilson, Nathan D.

Also available on Overdrive. When their parents' seedy old motel burns down on the same nigh...

Collins, Suzanne

Also available on Overdrive. When eleven-year-old Gregor and his two-year-old sister are pulled i...

Riordan, Rick, author.

"After angering his father Zeus, the god Apollo is cast down from Olympus. He must learn to sur...

Neff, Henry H.

Also available on Overdrive and RB Digital. After glimpsing a hint of his destiny in a mysteriou...

Deming, Sarah.

After discovering that the immortals of Greek mythology reside in her hometown of Middleville, Penns...

Riordan, Rick.

Also available on Overdrive and Hoopla. Jason, Piper, and Leo, three students from a school for &qu...

MacHale, D. J.

Bobby Pendragon is a seemingly normal and somewhat reluctant 14- year-old boy who is swept into an a...

Dilloway, Margaret.

Available as an audiobook on Hoopla. Twelve-year-old Xander discovers and learns to use the fantast...

Gaiman, Neil.

An unlucky twelve-year-old Norwegian boy named Odd leads the Norse gods Loki, Thor, and Odin in an a...

Armstrong, Kelley.

Available as an audiobook on Hoopla. When Ragnarok--the apocalypse--threatens, the human descendan...

Laurie, Victoria.

Also available on Overdrive. In 1938, three orphans--Theo, Carl, and Ian, ages ten to thirteen--le...

Meyer, Kai.

In a place similar to the 1706 Caribbean, two fourteen-year-old "polliwogs"--humans who ca...

Golding, Julia.

Upon moving to her aunt's seaside home in the British Isles, Connie becomes part of a secret so...

Landy, Derek.

Also available on Overdrive. When twelve-year-old Stephanie inherits her weird uncle's estate...

LaFevers, R. L.

Also available on Overdrive and Hoopla. Twelve-year-old Theo uses arcane knowledge and her own sp...