That was so completely unfair that I told Tantalus to go chase a... by Rick Riordan

That was so completely unfair that I told Tantalus to go chase a donut, which didn't help his mood.

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Oh, obviously,” Reyna said. “Without you, I doubt Percy could find his way out of a paper bag.” “True,” Annabeth agreed.

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The first lesson every child of Athena learned: Mom was the best at everything, and you should never, ever suggest otherwise.

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That is exactly how people beat Chinese handcuffs. They turn into... by Rick Riordan

That is exactly how people beat Chinese handcuffs. They turn into iguanas.

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I saw 'The 39 Clues' as a potential vehicle for doing some education in a fun way - to take some of these amazing stories from history, dust them off and make them alive.

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My modus operandi hasn't really changed that much from when I was an English teacher. I wanted my students to leave my classroom loving reading and wanting to read more, and if they left my classroom thinking that reading is boring, then I haven't done my job.

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Writing is like a sport. If you don't practice, you don't get any... by Rick Riordan

Writing is like a sport. If you don't practice, you don't get any better.

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Stuff has become the enemy. There always seems to be more of it t... by Rick Riordan

Stuff has become the enemy. There always seems to be more of it than I have storage in my house!

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You can’t control every contingency. You have to accept that. Let it scare you. Trust that it’ll be okay anyway.

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I don’t define myself by the boys who may or may not like me. by Rick Riordan

I don’t define myself by the boys who may or may not like me.

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Some pain shouldn’t be wished away so easily. It has to be dealt... by Rick Riordan

Some pain shouldn’t be wished away so easily. It has to be dealt with, even embraced.

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Identify the moral dilemma driving the novel. the successful novel will haunt a reader because it deals with some ethical or moral dilemma that makes the reader wonder what he or she would do in the protagonist's place.

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"He mentioned it!" one of the ghosts whimpered. by Rick Riordan

"He mentioned it!" one of the ghosts whimpered.

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I am committed to writing appropriate books for the middle grades. This means no bad language, no gratuitous or explicit violence, and no sexual content beyond what you might find in a PG-rated movie – expressions of who likes whom, holding hands, and perhaps the occasional kiss. The idea that we should treat sexual orientation itself as an adults-only topic, however, is absurd. Non-heterosexual children exist. To pretend they do not, to fail to recognize that they have needs for support and validation like any child, would be bad teaching, bad writing, and bad citizenship.

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As in all Abercrombie's books, friends turn out to be enemies, enemies turn out to be friends; the line between good and evil is murky indeed; and nothing goes quite as we expect. With eye-popping plot twists and rollicking good action, Half a King is definitely a full adventure.

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Also ... the plan sounded exactly like the sneaky, twisted, ridiculously annoying and noble sort of thing Leo Valdez would do.

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It is true that I once refused to eat haggis in Scotland and this did not sit well with the local population.

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We tend to think of divorced or complicated families as a modern invention, and that is not at all true. You only have to read the Greek myths to see broken homes, widows, divorce, stepchildren, children trying to get along with new parents.

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I think kids want the same thing from a book that adults want - a fast-paced story, characters worth caring about, humor, surprises, and mystery. A good book always keeps you asking questions, and makes you keep turning pages so you can find out the answers.

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I stick closely to the structure of the myths. I may have some fun with the mythology by changing the environment to modern-day, but the structure of the myths, the monsters, the relationships of the gods - none of that is made up.

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The images from the book you make in your head are always going t... by Rick Riordan

The images from the book you make in your head are always going to be the best images.

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