And no matter how much she begs, her parents won't let her turn the bullies to stone. She just wants to be normal, but having snakes on your head pretty much makes that impossible. Levine Books.Īppetizer: Medusa Jones is teased and bullied by the champions at her school. He also gets help from Bridget, who has an alert-ego she named 'Malibu Death Barbrie' as well as Battle Roach named Fritz.Collins, R. Along the way he gets help from immortal teens, including Lincoln Douglass, son of Frederick Douglass. Rory is enlisted to help find a devious assassin who has somehow found a way to kill the immortals and has trapped the Munsee Indians in Central Park.

He also sees historical figures such as Walt Whitman, Babe Ruth, Peter Stuyvesant, John Jacob Astor and Alexander Hamilton, all gods in this parallel world. Walking home from a birthday party, Rory notices a cockroach riding a rat, an ancient Indian warrior, a papier-mâché boy and other oddities. Rory has a gift for seeing this other world but has ignored it until one day he can ignore it no more. Thirteen year old Rory and his nine year old sister Bridget live a seemingly life in New York City, unaware that sprits from Manhattan's (or Manhatta, as the invisible world is called) co-exist alongside them. Not exactly Greek Mythology, but worth mentioning for all the boys out there is Scott Mebus's Gods of Manhattan, with cover art, magical and fantastic as always, hardworking Brandon Dorman. Please know that I HAVE NOT read any of these other books on the list, but have researched them. The Gods of Manhattan and The Shadow Thieves and Stickman Odyssey also happen to be the only books on this list that I have read and reviewed. The two exceptions are Scott Mebus's Gods of Manhattan trilogy, which, while not technically about Greek gods and goddesses, have figures from American history posing as gods AND a boy protagonist and Christopher Ford's Stickman Odyssey. While the Riordan's books have enticed masses of boys to read, interestingly enough, most of the books I was able to round up are really 'girl' books, meaning they have girls as the main character and thus may not appeal to boys.

With the tremendous popularity of Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson series, many other books with Greek gods and goddesses as characters and themes from Greek Mythology have hit the shelves, so I thought I'd round up all the titles I could think of for you here.

For my list of reference books on Greek Mythology and retellings of The Odyssey and The Iliad, click here.

Medusa jones by ross collins