Rick Riordan Presents

Created on June 30, 2023, 10:11 am

Last Updated February 2, 2024, 11:51 am

Rick Riordan Presents is a book imprint of Disney-Hyperion Publishing from Rick Riordan featuring great middle grade authors / storytellers from underrepresented cultures and backgrounds who tell their own stories inspired by the mythology and folklore of their own heritage. The books appeal to kids who like Rick Riordan's books like the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series. In other words, they are usually some type of middle grade adventure or fantasy adventure, with lots of humor and action, and probably draw on myth or folklore in some way.

1) Aru Shah and the end of time

Author

Chokshi, Roshani

Series

Pandava volume 1

Formats:

Book, Playaway, eBook, Kindle

Description

"Twelve-year-old Aru Shah has the tendency to stretch the truth to fit in at school. One day, three schoolmates show up at Aru's doorstep to catch her in a lie. They don't believe her claim that the museum's Lamp of Bharata is cursed, and they dare Aru to prove it. But lighting the lamp has dire consequences. Her classmates and beloved mother are frozen in time, and it's up to Aru to save them"--Amazon.com.

2) Aru Shah and the song of death

Author

Chokshi, Roshani

Series

Pandava volume 2

Formats:

Book, Playaway, eBook, Kindle

Description

Accused of stealing the god of love's bow and arrow, Aru has ten days to find the real thief or risk being kicked out of the Otherworld.

3) Aru Shah and the Tree of Wishes

Author

Chokshi, Roshani

Series

Pandava volume 3

Formats:

Book, Playaway, eBook, Kindle

Description

After fourteen-year-old Aru Shah and her friends fail to keep a prophecy from the Sleeper, they undergo a rebranding campaign to prove the Pandavas's trustworthiness, but Aru believes they need to focus on finding the Tree of Wishes before the Sleeper and stopping war between the devas and the demons.

4) Aru Shah and the city of gold

Author

Chokshi, Roshani

Series

Pandava volume 4

Formats:

Book, eBook, eAudiobook

Description

"Aru Shah and her sisters--including one who also claims to be the Sleeper's daughter--must find their mentors Hanuman and Urvashi in Lanka, the city of gold, before war breaks out between the devas and asuras"--

5) Aru Shah and the nectar of immortality

Author

Chokshi, Roshani

Series

Pandava volume 5

Formats:

Book, eBook, Kindle, eAudiobook

Description

The Pandavas call on old friends, make new allies, and face fearsome trials as they embark on a mission to stop the Sleeper from accessing the nectar of immortality, but ultimately Aru must decide who deserves immortality--the devas or the asuras--and an unexpected answer comes from an unexpected place.

6) The storm runner

Author

Cervantes, J. C

Series

Storm runner volume 1

Formats:

Book, eBook, Kindle, eAudiobook

Description

To prevent the Mayan gods from battling each other and destroying the world, thirteen-year-old Zane must unravel an ancient prophecy, stop an evil god, and discover how the physical disability that makes him reliant on a cane also connects him to his father and his ancestry.

7) The Fire Keeper: a Storm Runner novel

Author

Cervantes, J. C

Series

Storm runner volume 2

Formats:

Description

Zane Obispo faces an impossible choice--to save other godborns like himself from the angry gods, or rescue his father, Hurakan, from his eternal prison.

8) The shadow crosser

Author

Cervantes, J. C

Series

Storm runner volume 3

Formats:

Description

"When a few Mexica gods try to put their Maya counterparts out of commission, it's up to Zane and some godborns-in-training to save the universe"--

9) The lords of night

Author

Cervantes, J. C

Series

Storm runner volume 1

Formats:

Description

When fourteen-year-old godborn and shadow bruja Renata embarks on a quest to stop five rogue demigods from awakening the nine Aztec Lords of Night and overpowering the Maya gods, she confronts questions about her family, her magic, and her destiny.

10) Dawn of the jaguar

Author

Cervantes, J. C

Series

Shadow bruja volume 2

Formats:

Book, eAudiobook

Description

"After negotiating with the queen of the underworld for ten days above ground, teenage bruja Ren sets out to save her friends and put the Lords of Night back to sleep forever, all without the help of her shadow magic and time rope."--

11) Dragon pearl

Author

Series

Thousand worlds volume 1

Formats:

Book, Playaway, eBook

Description

Min, a thirteen-year-old girl with fox-magic, stows away on a battle cruiser and impersonates a cadet in order to solve the mystery of what happened to her older brother in the Thousand World Space Forces.

12) Tiger honor

Author

Series

Thousand worlds volume 2

Formats:

Book, eBook, Kindle

Description

Thirteen-year-old nonbinary tiger spirit Sebin must decide where their loyalties lie when their traitorous uncle hijacks the battle cruiser that happens to be Sebin's first assignment in the Cadet Program.

Author

Series

Thousand worlds volume 3

Formats:

Description

"When Min the fox spirit and her ghost brother Jun are sent on a goodwill mission to prevent war from breaking out, they end up getting stranded on a death planet behind enemy lines"--

14) Sal & Gabi break the universe

Author

Hernandez, Carlos Alberto Pablo

Series

Sal and Gabi novels volume 1

Formats:

Book, Playaway, eBook, Kindle

Description

In order to heal after his mother's death, thirteen-year-old Sal learns to reach into time and space to retrieve things--and people--from other universes.

15) Sal and Gabi fix the universe

Author

Hernandez, Carlos Alberto

Series

Sal and Gabi novels volume 2

Formats:

Book, Playaway, eBook

Description

"When best friends Sal and Gabi try to repair the damage they created when they altered the universe to help their families, they end up creating even more chaos"--

16) Tristan Strong punches a hole in the sky

Author

Series

Tristan Strong volume 1

Formats:

Book, Playaway, eBook, Kindle, eAudiobook

Description

Seventh-grader Tristan Strong tumbles into the MidPass and, with allies John Henry and Brer Rabbit, must entice the god Anansi to come out of hiding and seal the hole Tristan accidentally ripped in the sky.

17) Tristan Strong destroys the world

Author

Series

Tristan Strong volume 2

Formats:

Book, Playaway, eAudiobook

Description

Seventh-grader Tristan must return to Alke and enlist the help of African gods and black folktale heroes when Nana is abducted from the Strong family farm in Alabama.

18) Tristan Strong keeps punching

Author

Series

Tristan Strong volume 3

Formats:

Book, eBook, Kindle, eAudiobook

Description

"After reuniting with Ayanna, who is now in his world, Tristan travels up the Mississippi in pursuit of his archenemy, King Cotton. Along the way they encounter new haints who are dead set on preventing their progress north to Tristan's hometown of Chicago. It's going to take many Alkean friends, including the gods themselves, the black flames of the afokena gloves, and all of Tristan's inner strength to deliver justice once and for all."--

19) Race to the sun

Author

Roanhorse, Rebecca

Formats:

Description

Guided by her Navajo ancestors, seventh-grader Nizhoni Begay discovers she is descended from a holy woman and destined to become a monsterslayer, starting with the evil businessman who kidnapped her father. Includes glossary of Navajo terms.

20) Paola Santiago and the river of tears

Author

Mejia, Tehlor Kay

Series

Paola Santiago volume 1

Formats:

Book, Playaway, eBook, Kindle

Description

In Silver Springs, Arizona, her mother's stories of the monstrous La Llorona are thrilling but unbelievable to science-loving Paola until she and her best friends Dante and Emma take a walk through a cactus field near the Gila River.