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Diana and the Island of No Return by Aisha Saeed
5.0
We love Wonder Woman (ok, maybe not that second movie, we'll just pretend like that never happened) and really loved Leigh Bardugo's Warbringer, the YA novelization of the first movie, so we dived right into these two MG books.
In the first book, the island of Themyscira quakes and a -- gasp -- boy arrives on a ship that docks with Diana's best friend, Princess Sakina, and Sakina's family. He tells Diana he's being used as a servant, a near-slave, by Sakina's mother, who is one of Queen Hippolyta's close friends, fellow leader and trusted confidant.
Diana is plagued by doubt. Would another Queen do this to a boy, a child no less? Then, every woman on the island falls mysteriously asleep -- all except for Diana, Sakina and the boy. She nicks the Lasso of Truth from the armory and learns from the boy he's snuck onto her island under entirely false pretenses.
A demon is trying to capture Diana for his own nefarious purposes, and the boy poisoned everyone to get to Diana. He did so under duress, however. The demon is holding all his loved ones hostage until he returns with Diana.
Diana will do whatever it takes to save the Amazons. But the cure is not on the island, it's on the boy's, with all the demon's hostages. Diana must leave her protected oasis, defeat the demon and come back with the cure to save her family and every Amazon she loves.
Looking for more book suggestions for your 7th/8th grade classroom and students?
Visit my blog, The Fabric of Words, for more great middle grade book recommendations, free teaching materials and fiction writing tips: https://amb.mystrikingly.com/
In the first book, the island of Themyscira quakes and a -- gasp -- boy arrives on a ship that docks with Diana's best friend, Princess Sakina, and Sakina's family. He tells Diana he's being used as a servant, a near-slave, by Sakina's mother, who is one of Queen Hippolyta's close friends, fellow leader and trusted confidant.
Diana is plagued by doubt. Would another Queen do this to a boy, a child no less? Then, every woman on the island falls mysteriously asleep -- all except for Diana, Sakina and the boy. She nicks the Lasso of Truth from the armory and learns from the boy he's snuck onto her island under entirely false pretenses.
A demon is trying to capture Diana for his own nefarious purposes, and the boy poisoned everyone to get to Diana. He did so under duress, however. The demon is holding all his loved ones hostage until he returns with Diana.
Diana will do whatever it takes to save the Amazons. But the cure is not on the island, it's on the boy's, with all the demon's hostages. Diana must leave her protected oasis, defeat the demon and come back with the cure to save her family and every Amazon she loves.
Looking for more book suggestions for your 7th/8th grade classroom and students?
Visit my blog, The Fabric of Words, for more great middle grade book recommendations, free teaching materials and fiction writing tips: https://amb.mystrikingly.com/