25 Adventurous Books Like Percy Jackson By Rick Riordan

This guide to Greek myth for young readers has been in print for more than fifty years, and is a conclusive and accessible roundup of Greek gods, heroes, and myths.

When Kendra and Seth’s parents go away on a cruise, they’re left with their grandparents for what they think is a dull vacation. Instead, they discover their grandfather is the keeper of Fablehaven, a sanctuary for mystical and magical creatures. But when Seth breaks the rules, inadvertently unleashing trouble, Kendra and Seth have to find a way to make things right.

When Sabrina and Daphne Grimm are sent to live with their grandmother Relda, they learn they’re the descendants of the famous Brothers Grimm. And the brothers’ famous book is actually a case file of all the monsters they encountered. Now the girls are living in a town full of magical creatures, both good and bad, and when one of them sets loose a giant who kidnaps Relda, it’s up to the sisters Grimm to save the day and find their grandmother.

When a winged horse named Pegasus crashes onto the roof of Emily’s Manhattan apartment, she and her friends are thrust into a battle to save all of Olympus. Dragged into a battle between Roman gods and creatures called Nirads, Emily teams up with a goddess, a thief, and a mortal boy to return Pegasus to Olympus and save all the gods, while avoiding a government agency that wants to experiment on Pegasus. 

When twelve-year-old Farah and her two friends are sucked into a Jumanji-esque board game called The Gauntlet, they have to find a way to beat the game’s many challenges, engineered by its diabolical architect. If they can’t find a way to escape, they’ll stay trapped forever, and so will a bunch of other children, including Farah’s younger brother.

When Gregor falls through a grate in the laundry room, he finds himself in Underland, where people live alongside all types of creatures and critters. There, Gregor learns a prophecy predicts his role in Underland’s future, and though he wants nothing to do with it at first, helping the Underlanders might also mean solving the mystery of his father’s disappearance two years ago.

For fans of mythology from all corners of the world, Korwin Briggs’s new book is a fun introduction to a variety of gods, goddesses and heroes. From Apollo, Greek god of prophecy, to Nu Gua, Chinese goddess of creation and  renewal, to to Maui, the Maori hero of the Pacific, there are more than seventy figures from more than twenty traditions.

In this story, rooted in Caribbean folklore, Corrine La Mer must save her island from the Jumbies. She thought they were just stories made up by parents to scare their children, but then she meets the beautiful and mysterious Severine. And bewitching Corrine’s father is just the first step in a larger plan for Severine to claim the entire island for the Jumbies, and to stop her, Corrine will have to gather all her courage and get a handle on magical abilities she didn’t know she had.

Matt’s always known he’s a descendant of the Norse god Thor, and everyone else in his hometown, including his friends Laurie and Fen, know of their own connections to Thor and trickster Loki. It’s no big deal until Matt, Laurie, and Fen, are forced to fight in the place of the gods and stave off Ragnarok.

When Max Tilt and his cousin, Alex ,discover their great-great-grandfather Jules Verne (yes, that James Verne) authored a manuscript called The Lost Treasures that’s more fact than fiction, the two embark on an adventure that could solve all of Max’s problems. His ailing mother, his unemployed father, their soon-to-be foreclosed on house. But Max and Alex aren’t the only treasure hunters looking, and they’ll have to outrace a lifelong researcher if they want to get to the treasure first.

When Logan Wilde discovers a griffin hiding under his bed, he’s drawn into the world of the Menagerie, guarded for centuries by Zoe Kahn’s family. But after someone releases the griffin cubs, the whole menagerie may be shut down. To save the Menagerie and find the person sabotaging it, Zoe’s willing to do anything, even enlist the help of outsider Logan. 

For her whole life, Kiranmala’s parents have told her she’s an Indian princess and not from this world. She’s never believed them, but when her twelfth birthday arrives, her parents suddenly disappear, and a rakkosh demon attacks her in her kitchen, it seems her parents may have been telling the truth. Joined by two handsome princes who are determined to rescue her, Kiranmala leaps into another dimension, dodging the Serpent King and Rakkoshi Queen, to find her parents and save the world.

When Charlotte’s cousin Zee shows up, claiming to be the cause of an illness that’s felled his friends back in England, she doesn’t believe him. Until more people start getting sick, too. Together, Charlotte and Zee journey to the Underworld, where they learn that the fate of the whole world, both living and dead, is in their hands.

After her grandfather, an author of horror novels, passes away, twelve-year-old Stephanie Edgely inherits his house. She also inherits his enemies, one of which attacks her. But Stephanie’s also inherited her grandfather’s friend, Skullduggery Pleasant, skeleton, detective, and sorcerer. Realizing her beloved grandfather’s novels were based more in truth than she ever knew, and that he was murdered, Stephanie and Skullduggery go together on a journey to find his killer and, of course, save the world.

When the three Grace children move into their new house, they discover a book in their attic: Arthur Spiderwick’s Field Guide to the Fantastic World Around You. As strange things begin to happen around the house, the kids realize they aren’t the only ones living there, and are instead sharing it with a bunch of mythical and magical creatures.

In the next release from Disney’s Rick Riordan Presents, Storm Runner, a boy name Zane is thrust into a battle against Maya gods. A new girl at school informs him he’s destined to release a Maya god from the ancient relic he’s imprisoned in, unless she can find the god first. But their plans go awry, and Zane ends up in a battle between the gods (just like Percy Jackson before him, one of these gods is Zane’s father), and if Zane wants to win—and survive—he’ll have to become the Storm Runner. But it’s hard for Zane to imagine it when he can’t even walk without his cane. 

A young valkyrie approaching her fourteenth birthday, Freya isn’t too eager to take up the full duties of a valkyrie, collecting souls from battlefields. She’s much more interested in the lives of humans, who Freya’s only watched from afar on Asgard. But on her first battlefield mission, Freya reaps a soldier whose unfinished business whisks her to Midgard where she has to battle enemies both mortal and immortal.

Living with her mother and father in their ramshackle hut in the valley of Fruitless Mountain, Minli spends her days in the field and her nights listening to her father’s stories of the Old Man on the Moon. In search of a way to change their fortunes, Minli departs on a journey to find the Old Man and ask him how.