Tuesday, December 19, 2017

Hero's Journey Middle School Books


THE LOST YEARS OF MERLIN by T.A. Barron
Merlin, Wizards
A young boy who has no identity nor memory of his past washes ashore on the coast of Wales and finds his true name after a series of fantastic adventure. Series




 THE DARK IS RISING SEQUENCE by Susan Cooper
 Good and Evil
A group of children in Cornwall, including the three Drew siblings, Will    Stanton, and a mysterious boy named Bran, are drawn into a dangerous battle between the forces of Light and the Dark. Series








A GIRL NAMED DISASTER by Nancy Farmer
While fleeing from Mozambique to Zimbabwe to escape an unwanted marriage, Nhamo, an eleven-year-old Shona girl, struggles to escape drowning and starvation and in so doing comes close to the luminous world of the African spirits.
THE KEYS TO THE KINGDOM by Garth Nix
Mister Monday-Grim Tuesday....Series

Arthur Penhaligon, destined to die at a young age, is saved by a key shaped like the minute hand of a clock, but his survival invokes the wrath of the mysterious Mister Monday who will stop at nothing to get the key back, and Arthur is forced into a desperate quest to unravel the secrets of the key and discover his true fate. Series






MORE DIFFICULT

GUINEVERE by Sharan Newman
Tells of Guinevere's childhood when she was guarded by a majestic beast and prepared for holy sacrifice by the disciples of the Earth Mother. 


"Sharan Newman has created a portrait of what Guinevere might have been like--not a cardboard character who has been both deified and vilified over the centuries, but someone who was as bound by prophecy as Arthur and whose will ultimately was not all her own."< https://www.fantasticfiction.com/n/sharan-newman/guinevere.htm>

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