Summer Reading Book Recommendations: Week 7

We're on the downward slide of summer heading into August and the start of school, but summer reading suggestions keep coming! This week the focus is on mythology.

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Students often gravitate to the Roman and Greek myths, and many YA novels are popular because the story has a base in those ancient stories. The Percy Jackson series and its continued popularity is certainly proof of that, along with many other series by Rick Riordan. Who Let the Gods Out? also features Greek mythology; however, if you're looking to read stories with a basis in mythology from other places, you might try the others featured above. While most of the books shown are in a series, The Scorpio Races is not, so if you're looking for a stand-along title (and a *great* read!), you might want to try that one. Series or stand-alone, Greek mythology or not, all of these make summer reading--or any time reading!--more enjoyable!

Tuesday Title Talk: Convergence from The Zodiac Legacy by Stan Lee

Yep, it's THAT Stan Lee--the man you know as the creator of Spiderman is now an author with a new book called Convergence in The Zodiac Legacy series.

Think of the first book in this series as a Chinese mythological adventure similar to the adventures in Greek mythology we saw with the Percy Jackson series or Egyptian mythology with The Kane Chronicles. Here's what The Zodiac Legacy website has to say about their book:

Check out the trailer that features Stan Lee himself:

For fans of the first book, you can look forward to the release of Book 2 The Dragon's Return later in October: