![]() Now there’s Capture the Flag by Kate Messner. ![]() There’s also the Artemis Fowl books, which incorporate Irish mythology into a modern story, the Runemarks series (Norse mythology), The Clockwork Dark series (American Tall Tales), The Children of the Lamp series (Egyptian again), The Conch Bearer and its sequels (Indian folklore), The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kroop (King Arthur legends), Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (Chinese folklore), and probably dozens of other similar books and series. He stated, jokingly (I think) that his own kids were so wrapped up in the Percy Jackson books that he felt he should create a modern adventure story that ties in Native-American myths and legends. He did it again with the Kane Chronicles series, which ties in the myths of ancient Egypt, and once again has young kids reading new books, while consulting the old ones to better understand the mysteries and twists and turns.Ī few years ago, I was lucky enough to meet an incredible author named Sherman Alexie (highly recommend his book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian), who is Native-American. Rick Riordan will forever be on my list of super-geniuses, simply because he figured out how to get kids to read and read and read and read. First there was The Lightning Thief, a fantastic adventure set in modern day, with a hero that today’s kids can relate to, but ties in the myths of ancient Greece – suddenly every 6th grader I knew was reading the Percy Jackson books and volumes of ancient myths.
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