Wonder Woman: Monster Magic

By Louise Simonson and Andrea Gianopoulos

On remote island, scientists discover an exotic plant, which they hope will lead to a medical breakthrough. Instead, when they return to Washington, D.C., the rare fauna brings on a monstrous breakout. The sinister sorceress, CIRCE, attacks the city with her magical malice. Even WONDER WOMAN, the PRINCESS OF THE AMAZONS, can't escape her cruel charms.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Capstone Young Readers
• Release date: Apr 1, 2014
• ISBN: 9781434298669

Louise Simonson

Louise Simonson writes about monsters, science fiction and fantasy characters, and superheroes. She wrote the award-winning Power Pack series, several best-selling X-Men titles, Web of Spider-Man for Marvel Comics, and Superman: Man of Steel for DC Comics. She has also written many books for kids. She is married to comic artist and writer Walter Simonson and lives in the suburbs of New York City.

Book preview

CHAPTER 1

CREATURE CHAOS

CHAPTER 2

MONSTER MAGIC

CHAPTER 3

CIRCE’S TALE

CHAPTER 4

MAGICAL ATTACK

CHAPTER 5

VICTORY AT LAST

Invisible Plane

Biographies

Glossary

Discussion Questions

Writing Prompts

Copyright

Back Cover

Princess Diana was visiting New York from her new home in Washington, D.C. She glanced up at the skyscrapers as she crossed Fifth Avenue. Mostly, she watched the people — men and women, young and old, workers and tourists. They were from every continent on Earth.

New York is so different from my home on Themyscira, she thought. The noise. The bustle. The variety. The excitement. I love it!

As she stepped onto the sidewalk, she glanced in a shiny shop window.

The glass showed the reflection of a tall young woman in a plain blue suit. Her dark hair was pulled into a bun. Diana almost didn’t recognize her own reflection.

I look so modern, she thought. I’m different in America. But then, I’d be different almost anywhere.

as a car crashed. Horns blared and people screamed.

Diana glanced up the street. Her mouth opened in amazement. Then she began to spin, twirling so quickly that

Reviews for Wonder Woman

[daniexj · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Wonder Woman is just minding her business when suddenly there are monsters rampaging. A minotaur, Hydra, a Gryphon, and more. Wonder Woman has to find out how they have seemingly sprung from whole cloth and what they want.As usual, not everything is as it seems. And although there is some fighting, Wonder Woman, as usual, wants to solve things with brains, not brawn.And what happened to the 'bad guy' was hilarious on multiple levels.