RIYL+Mythology

See Also, RIYL Percy Jackson See Also, RIYL Heroes Journey

“Chronos Chronicles” by Anne Ursu __The shadow thieves__

__The Egypt Game__ by Zilpha Keatley Snyder __The Great God Pan __ by Donna Jo Napoli

“Percy Jackson & the Olympians” series by Rick Riordan __The Lightning Thief __ __ The Sea of Monsters __ __The Titan’s Curse__ __Battle__ __of the Labyrinth__ __The Last Olympian__

“The Kane Chronicles” by Rick Riorden __The Red Pyramid __

“ The Heroes of Olympus” Series __The Lost Hero__ __The Son of Neptune __

__Sea of Trolls__ & __Land of the Silver Apples__ by Nancy Farmer

__Sirena__ by Donna Jo Napoli

“Everworld” Series by K. A. Applegate __The Search for Senna__ __Enter the Enchanted__ __Realm of the Reaper__ __Inside the Illusion__ __Discover the Destroyer__ __Fear the Fantastic__ __ Gateway to the Gods __ __Brave the Betrayal__ __Understand the Unknown__ __Mystify the Magician__ __Entertain the End__

Eight Days of Luke by Diana Wynne Jones Night Tourist Gods of Manhattan The Alchemyst- Nicolas Flemmel series which has various Celtic, Hindu, and Egyptian mythology Thief Eyes by Janni Lee Simner ( Norse mythology ) Mad Love by Suzanne Selfors (Cupid) Entice by Carrie Jones (Norse mythology) Consider //Odd and the Frost Giants// by Neil Gaiman. ( Norse mythology) Books: //Mythology//, Edith Hamilton, $6.00 //Bulfinch’s Mythology,// Thomas Bulfinch, Copyright-free online //The Odyssey//, Homer, transl. Robert Fitzgerald, $15.00 //The Bible,// online
 * Curriculum Connections:**

Short Stories: “Araby,” James Joyce; “A & P,” John Updike

Supplemental Myths and Tales: Open source online Examples: //Struwwelpeter//, Heinrich Hoffman (http://www.fln.vcu.edu/struwwel/struwwel.html ) “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” (available in Prentice Hall textbook) //Robin Hood//, Howard Pyle, Copyright-free online (//http://pyle.thefreelibrary.com/The-Merry-Adventures-of-Robin-Hood)// //The Idylls of the King//, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Copyright-free online (http://www2.cs.uregina.ca/~barnard/idylls.html) Legends of King Arthur, Copy-right free online (http://www.sfu.ca/archaeology/museum/kingarth/1intro.html) (www.britannia.com/history/h12.html) (http://www.legendofkingarthur.co.uk/) (http://www.2020site.org/kingarthur/index.html)

Supplemental Book: //The True Story of the Three Little Pigs//, by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith, $8.00 See Also RIYL fairy tales

Poetry: “Sirens,” Margaret Atwood “To Helen,” Edgar Allan Poe “Helen,” h.d. “Leda and the Swan,” WilliamButler Yeats “Leda’s Sister and the Geese,” Katharyn Howd Machan “To a Daughter Leaving Home,” Linda Pastan “The Fifteenth Summer,” James Merrill “Fifteen,” William Stafford “Pygmalion’s Bride,” Carol Ann Duffy “Cinderella,” Anne Sexton

Films: //The Karate Kid// //Sixteen Candles// //Whale Rider// //Some Kind of Wonderful// //Star Wars: Episodes IV, V, and VI// //The Wizard of Oz// //Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth, with Bill Moyers// (Program One) //The Princess Bride//