Genre:
Middle Grade Urban Fantasy
Banshee at the Gate
by Wendy Knight
Description: Thirteen-year-old,
half-breed banshee, Seven, likes her life. She leads souls safely to Death and
she has the planet’s most awesome dad and little brother. But a cryptic message
from Atlantis asking for her help changes all that. And then there’s Death, who
has decided it’s time to take her brother’s soul. Now she’s racing across the
world, trying to stay one step ahead of Death.
Unfortunately, getting to Atlantis from Ireland isn’t easy, there are evil
minions determined to keep her away every time she turns around. But fighting for
their lives teaches Seven one very important lesson—she isn’t human, and she
isn’t a banshee. She has to be both if she wants to save her brother and make
it back home alive.
Guardians of the Gate
by Laura D. Bastian
Description: Thirteen-year-old
merman, Exander, wants to leave Atlantis to mingle with the humans and explore
the world above. Talia, his best friend, wishes she was a guardian of a gate
leading to the surface. She'd keep those nasty humans out of her beloved city
of Atlantis. When Talia accidentally short circuits a gate, Exander is trapped
on the wrong side, getting a crash course in navigating the human world. As
Talia fights to help Exander come home, she learns someone is closing the other
gates, and it’s destroying the magic of Atlantis. If they can’t convince the
magical creatures of the world to save the gates, the destruction of Atlantis
will only be the beginning.
Secrets of the Mine
by Juli Caldwell
Description: Adam
Alfaro daydreams about magic, myths, and becoming famous for discovering the
lost city of Atlantis. The only problem? He has to spend spring break in Africa
while his mom works. To make it worse, everyone expects him to be friends with
the annoying Clancy Pitt while he’s there. It’s dislike at first sight...until
he realizes she might know a few secrets about Atlantis.
Then he meets Nef, a spirited sea kelpie who needs help rescuing kidnapped naiads,
left to die in an ancient mine. Suddenly the strange creatures Adam dreamed of
become all too real. And they’re after him. Can Adam, Clancy, and Nef fight
their way through the maze of tunnels in the mine and reach the naiads before
it's too late?
Magicians of the Deep
by Jaclyn Weist
Description:
Thirteen-year-old Colin knew nothing of the magic
world until he is bitten by a mischievous pixie. He meets thirteen-year-old
Alleya on a secret website devoted to magical creatures.
Alleya has been hidden away from the rest of
Atlantis because of who she is. She accidentally lets slip a dark secret—the
gates to Atlantis are being shut down and it's destroying magic. For her
treason, Alleya is exiled to Indiatlantis.
Together, Colin and Alleya must find a way to bring
back the old magic and fight to save Atlantis.
Madness Behind the
Throne by JR Simmons
Description: Callidora
is an Atlantian noblewoman and member of an elite guard whose purpose is to
keep Atlantis pure...until her life is turned upside down by the birth of
a son.
Phoibos, bullied and taunted by other kids, is sure of one thing: something is
wrong with Atlantis. Impure, Atlantian-Human hybrids are ruining his city, and
he'll stop at nothing to rectify that. Callidora is the only one who knows the
truth of who her only son really is, and how dangerous he can be. Can anyone
stop Phoibos before his need for purification brings Atlantis to the very brink
of destruction?
Battle for Acropolis
by Mikey Brooks
Description: Thirteen-year-old
Talon is in trouble...again. He didn't mean to burn down the school library. It
just happened. Things like that always happen to Talon. His life is a mixture
of the weird and bizarre. No one else he knows can shoot fire from their hands
or cause an earthquake...but he can.
Every night the same dream haunts Talon: the destruction of an underwater city.
He doesn't have a clue what it means but he feels like fate is trying to warn
him. It's not until he runs away with his foster sister Hattie that he
discovers his trouble-making powers and strange nightmare are connected.
Together they are the key to saving magic...to saving Atlantis.
Review:
Honestly I have only read one of these books,
however being on the inside of the interworking of this series I have a good
idea of what each book entails. They are written to be a series but technically
could be read separately. The one book that I have read is number 6, Battle for Acropolis. It was a fabulous book and could be read, like each of
the books, on its own, however it helps tremendously to read each book to get
the whole story. The characters appear throughout the different books in the series.
Saying this, I read the last book in the series and when introduced to a huge
amount of characters in the end of the story became a little confusing
remembering who everyone was. I feel the confusion would have been avoided if I
knew these characters better from reading the books they “star” in as well. I
look forward to reading the other books in this series and would recommend
anybody to read the series in its entirety
Rating:
5 out of 5 stars
Buy the books:
Banshee at
the Gate:
Guardians
of the Gates:
Secrets of
the Mine:
Magicians
of the Deep:
Madness
Behind the Throne:
Battle for
Acropolis:
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