Phone Home, Persephone!

by Kate McMullan · 2002

Myth-O-Mania seriesbook 2 of 8Next:Phone home, Persephone!(2002) →

+ Want to read

In this modern version of the Greek myth, Persephone asks Hades for a ride to escape her overprotective mother, sneaks into the Underworld, and refuses to leave.

Genre
mythologymythologyMore like thisLess of thismyths and folkloremyths and folkloreMore like thisLess of thisfantasyfantasyMore like thisLess of thishumorhumorMore like thisLess of this
Audience
childrensmiddle gradeyoung adult
Length
short · 150 pages

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it. Point at it (on a phone, tap it) for less of it instead.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

BuyAmazonGoogle Books

BorrowOpen LibraryA library near you

MoreCompare pricesHardcover

Liked Phone Home, Persephone!? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked Phone Home, Persephone!. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. Steeds of the Gods Lucy Coats · 2015 Shares mythology, childrens, fantasy
  2. Medusa Jones Ross Collins · 2008 Shares mythology, childrens, fantasy
  3. Medusa Bernard Evslin · 1987 Shares mythology, childrens, fantasy
  4. A Dignity of Dragons Jacqueline K. Ogburn · 2010 Shares childrens, fantasy, mythology
See more recommendations →

“People who read Phone Home, Persephone! tend to reach for these next.”

  1. Absolute Zero: Being the Second Part of the Bagthorpe Saga Helen Cresswell · 1978
  2. Wizard at Work Vivian Vande Velde · 2003
  3. Dusssie Nancy Springer · 2007
  4. Sammy Keyes and the Wild Things Wendelin Van Draanen · 2007

“If you want more of the same (mythology), start with these.”

  1. Thor's Wedding Day: By Thialfi, the goat boy, as told to and translated by Bruce Coville Bruce Coville · 2005
  2. A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1853
  3. Apollo and the Battle of the Birds Joan Holub, Suzanne Williams · 2014
  4. Medusa the Rich Joan Holub, Suzanne Williams · 2015

“If it was the fantasy that hooked you, try one of these.”

  1. Athena the Brain Joan Holub, Suzanne Williams · 2010
  2. Nyx the Mysterious Joan Holub, Suzanne Williams
  3. Favorite Norse Myths Mary Pope Osborne · 1996
  4. Hound of Hades Lucy Coats · 2015

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. Electra Sophocles
  2. Mother, Please!: What a Girl Wants / The Road Home / Upstairs, Downstairs Brenda Novak, Alison Kent, Jill Shalvis · 2004
  3. Stepsister Jennifer Donnelly · 2019
  4. Runaway Virgin L.C. Dean · 2012

Report a problem