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Code Name Verity

Author	: Elizabeth E. Wein
Publisher	: Hachette UK
Release Date	: 2020-05-26
ISBN 10	: 9781423153252
Pages	: 304 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (532 users)

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Download or read book Code Name Verity written by Elizabeth E. Wein and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beloved #1 New York Times bestseller, a "fiendishly plotted" (New York Times) "heart-in-your mouth adventure" (Washington Post) that "will take wing and soar into your heart" (Laurie Halse Anderson). October 11th, 1943--A British spy plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France. Its pilot and passenger are best friends. One of the girls has a chance at survival. The other has lost the game before it's barely begun. When "Verity" is arrested by the Gestapo, she's sure she doesn't stand a chance. As a secret agent captured in enemy territory, she's living a spy's worst nightmare. Her Nazi interrogators give her a simple choice: reveal her mission or face a grisly execution. As she intricately weaves her confession, Verity uncovers her past, how she became friends with the pilot Maddie, and why she left Maddie in the wrecked fuselage of their plane. On each new scrap of paper, Verity battles for her life, confronting her views on courage, failure and her desperate hope to make it home. But will trading her secrets be enough to save her from the enemy? A universally acclaimed Michael L. Printz Award Honor book, Code Name Verity is a visceral read of danger, resolve, and survival that shows just how far true friends will go to save each other.

Code Name Verity

Author	: Elizabeth Wein
Publisher	: Hyperion
Release Date	: 2013-05-07
ISBN 10	: 1423152883
Pages	: 368 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (83 users)

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Download or read book Code Name Verity written by Elizabeth Wein and published by Hyperion. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage and great courage as she relates what she must do to survive while keeping secret all that she can.

Code Name Pauline

Author	: Pearl Witherington Cornioley
Publisher	: Chicago Review Press
Release Date	: 2013-08-01
ISBN 10	: 9781613744901
Pages	: 208 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (449 users)

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Download or read book Code Name Pauline written by Pearl Witherington Cornioley and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pearl Witherington Cornioley, one of the most celebrated female World War II resistance fighters, shares her remarkable story in this firsthand account of her experience as a special agent for the British Special Operations Executive (SOE). Told through a series of reminiscences—from a difficult childhood spent in the shadow of World War I and her family's harrowing escape from France as the Germans approached in 1940 to her recruitment and training as a special agent and the logistics of parachuting into a remote rural area of occupied France and hiding in a wheat field from enemy fire—each chapter also includes helpful opening remarks to provide context and background on the SOE and the French Resistance. With an annotated list of key figures, an appendix of original unedited interview extracts—including Pearl's fiancé Henri's story—and fascinating photographs and documents from Pearl's personal collection, this memoir will captivate World War II buffs of any age.

Reading Children’s Literature: A Critical Introduction - Second Edition

Author	: Carrie Hintz
Publisher	: Broadview Press
Release Date	: 2019-03-28
ISBN 10	: 9781770487130
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (871 users)

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Download or read book Reading Children’s Literature: A Critical Introduction - Second Edition written by Carrie Hintz and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2019-03-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading Children’s Literature offers insights into the major discussions and debates currently animating the field of children’s literature. Informed by recent scholarship and interest in cultural studies and critical theory, it is a compact core text that introduces students to the historical contexts, genres, and issues of children’s literature. A beautifully designed and illustrated supplement to individual literary works assigned, it also provides apparatus that makes it a complete resource for working with children’s literature during and after the course. The second edition includes a new chapter on children’s literature and popular culture (including film, television, and merchandising) and has been updated throughout to reflect recent scholarship and new offerings in children’s media.

Teaching Young Adult Literature

Author	: Judith A. Hayn
Publisher	: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date	: 2015-11-12
ISBN 10	: 9781475813036
Pages	: 140 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (13 users)

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Download or read book Teaching Young Adult Literature written by Judith A. Hayn and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-11-12 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is intended to give educators a resource to aid them in creating a literacy curriculum. The included chapters written by experts from different universities across the country offer a variety of methods for using YAL to meet the standards while connecting with students. Following a framework first chapter introducing the importance of YAL and discussing its relevance, other authors tackle various ways to teach it. Each chapter may suggest different strategies and rationales for utilizing YAL, but each shares a common purpose with the others: to promote the efficacy of YAL to engage students while at the same time meeting the rigorous standards set forth by the Common Core.

The Baby Name Wizard, 2019 Revised 4th Edition

Author	: Laura Wattenberg
Publisher	: Harmony
Release Date	: 2013-05-07
ISBN 10	: 9780770436483
Pages	: 544 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (364 users)

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Download or read book The Baby Name Wizard, 2019 Revised 4th Edition written by Laura Wattenberg and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW 2019 EDITION A fully revised and updated version of the classic baby name guide, featuring updated trends, facts, ideas, and thousands of enchanting names! Your baby’s perfect name is out there. This book will help you find it. The right baby name will speak to your heart, give your child a great start in life—and maybe even satisfy your relatives. But there’s no shortage of names to choose from, and you can’t expect to just stumble upon a name like that in an A-to-Z dictionary. Enter the revised and updated fourth edition of The Baby Name Wizard. This ultimate baby-name guide uses groundbreaking research and computer-generated models to create a visual image for each name, examine its usage and popularity over the last one hundred years, and suggest other specific and promising name ideas. Each unique “name snapshot” includes a rundown of style categories the name belongs to, nickname options, variants, pronunciations, prominent examples, and names with a similar style and feeling. This new edition also contains expanded sections on popular names and style lists. A perfect, up-to-date guide to the modern world of names, The Baby Name Wizard will delight you from the first name you look up and keep you enchanted through your journey to finding the just-right name for your baby.

2014 Children's Writer's & Illustrator's Market

Author	: Chuck Sambuchino
Publisher	: Penguin
Release Date	: 2013-08-21
ISBN 10	: 9781599637440
Pages	: 820 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (374 users)

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Download or read book 2014 Children's Writer's & Illustrator's Market written by Chuck Sambuchino and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most trusted guide to the world of children's publishing! If you write or illustrate for young readers with the hope of getting published, the 2014 Children's Writer's & Illustrator's Market is the trusted resource you need. Now in its 26th edition, CWIM is the definitive publishing guide for anyone who seeks to write or illustrate for kids and young adults. Inside you'll find more than 650 listings for children's book markets (publishers, agents, magazines, and more)--including a point of contact, how to properly submit your work, and what categories each market accepts. You'll also find: • Interviews with some of today's hottest authors and illustrators, including author R.L. Stine (the Goosebumps series), author Marie Lu (Legend), author Beth Revis (Across the Universe), and illustrator Debbie Ridpath (I'm Bored, written by Michael Ian Black). • The ever-popular "First Books" article, where debut writers and illustrators explain what they did right and how you can follow in their footsteps to success. • In-depth articles on picture books, query letters, novel voice, author platform, the status of indie-publishing, literary agents, and more. Includes "New Agent Spotlights"--profiles on literary reps actively seeking new writers of children's books right now. "I buy a copy of Children's Writer's & Illustrator's Market every single year. It's the definitive, must-have resource for children's publishing." --Jesse Klausmeier, author of the picture book Open This Little Book "Children's Writer's & Illustrator's Market is a great resource for artists and writers who are ready to share their talent with the world." --Meg Cabot, author of The Princess Diaries

No More Fake Reading

Author	: Berit Gordon
Publisher	: Corwin Press
Release Date	: 2017-07-07
ISBN 10	: 9781506365497
Pages	: 344 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (654 users)

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Download or read book No More Fake Reading written by Berit Gordon and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2017-07-07 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For middle- and high-school teachers, it’s one of today’s most vexing problems: How do you motivate students with varied interests and little appetite for classic literature to stop faking their way through texts and start advancing as skilled, engaged readers? Independent reading is an important part of the answer, but it’s just that — a part of the whole. In this groundbreaking book, Berit Gordon offers the complete solution, a blended model that combines the benefits of classic literature with the motivational power of choice reading. With the blended model, teachers lead close examinations of key passages from classic texts, guiding students to an understanding of important reading strategies they can transfer to their choice books. Teachers gain a platform for demonstrating the critical reading skills students so urgently require, and students thrive on reading what they want to read. In this research-backed book, Gordon leads you step by step to classroom success with the blended model, showing: The basics of getting your classroom library up and running How to build a blended curriculum for both fiction and non-fiction units, keeping relevant standards in mind Tips and resources to help with day-to-day planning Ideas for selecting class novel passages that provide essential cultural capital and bolster students’ reading skills Strategies for bringing talk into your blended reading classroom How to reach the crucial learning goal of transfer A practical, user-friendly approach for assessing each student’s progress No More Fake Reading gives you all the tools you need to put the blended model to work for your students and transform your classroom into a vibrant reading environment. Berit Gordon coaches teachers as they nurture lifelong readers and writers. Her path as an educator began in the classroom in the Dominican Republic before teaching in New York City public schools. She also taught at the Teachers College of Columbia University in English Education. She currently works as a literacy consultant in grades 3-12 and lives in Maplewood, New Jersey with her husband and three children.

Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Childhood in Contemporary Britain

Author	: Sandra Dinter
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2017-11-15
ISBN 10	: 9781315313351
Pages	: 250 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (133 users)

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Download or read book Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Childhood in Contemporary Britain written by Sandra Dinter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the light of the complex demographic shifts associated with late modernity and the impetus of neo-liberal politics, childhood continues all the more to operate as a repository for the articulation of diverse social and cultural anxieties. Since the Thatcher years, juvenile delinquency, child poverty, and protection have been persistent issues in public discourse. Simultaneously, childhood has advanced as a popular subject in the arts, as the wealth of current films and novels in this field indicates. Focusing on the late twentieth and the early twenty-first centuries, this collection assembles contributions concerned with current political, social, and cultural dimensions of childhood in the United Kingdom. The individual chapters, written by internationally renowned experts from the social sciences and the humanities, address a broad spectrum of contemporary childhood issues, including debates on child protection, school dress codes, the media, the representation and construction of children in audiovisual media, and literary awards for children’s fiction. Appealing to a wide scholarly audience by joining perspectives from various disciplines, including art history, education, law, film and TV studies, sociology, and literary studies, this volume endorses a transdisciplinary and meta-theoretical approach to the study of childhood. It seeks to both illustrate and dismantle the various ways in which childhood has been implicitly and explicitly conceived in different disciplines in the wake of the constructivist paradigm shift in childhood studies.

A Lifetime of Fiction

Author	: William Patrick Martin
Publisher	: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date	: 2014-04-10
ISBN 10	: 9781442229419
Pages	: 235 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (294 users)

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Download or read book A Lifetime of Fiction written by William Patrick Martin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Lifetime of Fiction: The 500 Most Recommended Reads for Ages 2 to 102 is the most authoritative set of fiction book recommendations in the United States because it is a composite of the most noteworthy book award lists, best book publications, and recommended reading lists from leading libraries, schools, and parenting organizations from across the country. Who are these formidable experts? A Lifetime of Fiction amalgamates over 100 reading lists, including Time Magazine’s Top 100 Novels, Modern Library’s 100 Best Novels, Horn Book Children’s Classics, The New York Times Parent’s Guide to the Best Books for Children, Harvard Bookstore Favorite Books, College Board’s Great Books Recommended for College-Bound Readers, National Education Association’s Top Books for Children and 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. The definitive lists incorporate the Newbery Medals, Caldecott Medals, Coretta Scott King Awards, Pura Belpré Awards, Bram Stoker Awards, the Man Booker Awards, PEN/Faulkner Awards, Pulitzer Prizes, National Book Awards, New York Times Notable Books, and Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, and many more. A Lifetime of Fiction integrates the most widely recognized and respected literary award winners and runners up since the inception of the awards. The book is organized into five age group lists of 100 books – preschoolers (ages 2-5), early readers (ages 4-8), middle readers (ages 9-12), young adults (ages 13-17), and adults (ages 18+) – the books are in effect the selections made by the most formidable panel literary experts ever assembled. Each entry includes an annotation. To the perennial question, “What books are worth reading?” A Lifetime of Fiction: The 500 Most Recommended Reads for Ages 2 to 102 answers with best-of-the best booklists distilled from the most preeminent and trustworthy literary authorities.

A Coalition of Lions

Author	: Elizabeth Wein
Publisher	: Open Road Media
Release Date	: 2013-07-09
ISBN 10	: 9781480433205
Pages	: 202 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (332 users)

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Download or read book A Coalition of Lions written by Elizabeth Wein and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caught between two kingdoms, Princess Goewin must balance the demands of leadership with those of her own happiness With her own kingdom in upheaval and her vicious aunt out for blood, Goewin, princess of Britain and daughter of High King Artos, flees to the British-allied African kingdom of Aksum. There, she meets with her fiancé, Constantine, Britain’s ambassador to Aksum, who is next in line for the throne of Britain. But Aksum is undergoing its own political turmoil, and Goewin soon finds herself trapped between two countries, with the well-being of each at stake. When she learns of another heir to the British throne, she must handle the precarious situation with great care—for the sake of her own happiness as well as for the safety of her people. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Elizabeth Wein including rare images from the author’s personal collection.

The Sunbird

Author	: Elizabeth Wein
Publisher	: Open Road Media
Release Date	: 2013-12-17
ISBN 10	: 9781480460072
Pages	: 190 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (6 users)

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Download or read book The Sunbird written by Elizabeth Wein and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deadly plague rages through Aksum, and only one boy can uncover the traitor who spreads the disease and threatens to destroy the kingdom Telemakos, a descendant of both British and Aksumite rulers, has always been an outcast, but his resolve, loyalty, and bravery have never failed his royal heritage. When a plague spreads through the kingdom of Aksum, his aunt Goewin, British ambassador to Aksum, calls upon Telemakos to travel to the Afar desert and discover who has been a traitor to the crown, spreading the plague through the shipment of salt from port to port. Traveling in disguise as a deaf-mute slave, Telemakos is captured and subjected to cruelty and suffering. Now more than ever, he must call on his extraordinary courage and his gift for silence—for if he fails, it will cost him his life. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Elizabeth Wein including rare images from the author’s personal collection.

The Winter Prince

Author	: Elizabeth Wein
Publisher	: Open Road Media
Release Date	: 2013-07-09
ISBN 10	: 9781480433199
Pages	: 292 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (331 users)

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Download or read book The Winter Prince written by Elizabeth Wein and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brave Medraut is a fitting heir to the throne—but he can never be king—in this fantasy retelling of the legend of Mordred from the author of Code Name Verity. Medraut is the eldest son of High King Artos, and would-be heir to the British throne—if not for an unfortunate circumstance of birth. Instead, his weak and unskilled half-brother, Lleu, is chosen as successor. Medraut cannot bear the thought of being ruled by the boy who has taken what he believes is rightfully his. Consumed by jealousy, he turns to Morgause, the high king’s treacherous sister, who exploits Medraut’s shame and plots to take over the throne. But when Medraut discovers Lleu’s inner strength and goodness, he finds his battle is not just with the kingdom, but with the demons inside himself. Now he must choose where his allegiances truly lie. Perfect for readers of Robin McKinley and Jane Yolen, The Winter Prince is an “engrossing” novel that “fantasy lovers and devotees of Arthurian legends will enjoy,” from an author who has won honors ranging from the Carnegie Medal to the Edgar Award (Booklist). This ebook features an illustrated biography of Elizabeth Wein including rare images from the author’s personal collection.

The Lion Hunter

Author	: Elizabeth Wein
Publisher	: Open Road Media
Release Date	: 2013-12-17
ISBN 10	: 9781480460089
Pages	: 227 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (6 users)

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Download or read book The Lion Hunter written by Elizabeth Wein and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Telemakos may have survived his capture in Afar, but his dangerous journey is far from over . . . Twelve-year-old Telemakos—the descendant of British and Aksumite royalty—is still recovering from his ordeal as a government spy in the Afar desert, where he uncovered the traitor who spread the plague through Aksum. But before Telemakos is fully healed, tragedy strikes. For their own safety, Telemakos and his infant sister, Athena, are sent to live with Abreha, the ruler of Himyar—a longtime enemy turned ally of the Aksumites. Telemakos’s aunt Goewin, British ambassador to Aksum, warns him that Abreha is kind but dangerous. Telemakos promises he will be mindful—but he does not realize just how serious Goewin’s warnings will prove to be. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Elizabeth Wein including rare images from the author’s personal collection.

Code Name Verity Collection

Author	: Elizabeth Wein
Publisher	: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Release Date	: 2021-04-20
ISBN 10	: 9780316308533
Pages	: 1312 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (85 users)

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Download or read book Code Name Verity Collection written by Elizabeth Wein and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 1312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover all four critically-acclaimed, award-winning novels set in the world of the #1 New York Times bestseller Code Name Verity In The Enigma Game, fifteen-year-old Louisa Adair wants to fight back, make a difference, do something--anything to escape the Blitz and the ghosts of her parents, who were killed by enemy action. But when she accepts a position in the small village of Windyedge, Scotland, it hardly seems like a meaningful contribution. Still, the war feels closer than ever in Windyedge, where Ellen McEwen, a volunteer driver with the Royal Air Force, and Jamie Beaufort-Stuart, a flight leader for the 648 Squadron, are facing a barrage of unbreakable code and enemy attacks they can't anticipate. Their paths converge when a German pilot lands in Windyedge under mysterious circumstances and plants a key that leads Louisa to an unparalleled discovery: an Enigma machine that translates German code. Louisa, Ellen, and Jamie must work together to unravel a puzzle that could turn the tide of the war--but doing so will put them directly in the cross-hairs of the enemy. In the #1 New York Times bestseller Code Name Verity, a British spy plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France on October 11th, 1943. Its pilot and passenger are best friends. One of the girls has a chance at survival. The other has lost the game before it's barely begun. When "Verity" is arrested by the Gestapo, she's sure she doesn't stand a chance. As a secret agent captured in enemy territory, she's living a spy's worst nightmare. Her Nazi interrogators give her a simple choice: reveal her mission or face a grisly execution. As she intricately weaves her confession, Verity uncovers her past, how she became friends with the pilot Maddie, and why she left Maddie in the wrecked fuselage of their plane. On each new scrap of paper, Verity battles for her life, confronting her views on courage, failure and her desperate hope to make it home. But will trading her secrets be enough to save her from the enemy? ​In Rose Under Fire, American ATA pilot and amateur poet, Rose Justice, is captured by the Nazis while flying an Allied fighter plane from Paris to England. She is sent to Ravensbruck, the notorious women's concentration camp. Trapped in horrific circumstances, Rose finds hope in impossible circumstances through the loyalty, bravery and friendship of her fellow prisoners. But will that be enough to endure the fate that's in store for her? In The Pearl Thief, fifteen-year-old Julia Beaufort-Stuart wakes up in the hospital, instantly realizing that the lazy summer break she'd imagined won't be exactly what she anticipated. And once she returns to her grandfather's estate, she begins to realize that her injury might not have been an accident. One of her family's employees is missing, and he disappeared on the very same day she landed in the hospital. Desperate to figure out what happened, she befriends Euan McEwen, a Scottish Traveler boy, and his standoffish sister, Ellen. As Julie grows closer to this family, her memory of that fateful day returns to her in pieces. And when a body is discovered, her new friends are caught in the crosshairs of long-held biases about Travelers and Julie must get to the bottom of the mystery in order to keep them from being framed for the crime.

Study Guide

Author	: Supersummary
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 2019-03-20
ISBN 10	: 1091092540
Pages	: 44 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (4 users)

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Download or read book Study Guide written by Supersummary and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-20 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality study guides for challenging works of literature. This 43-page guide for "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein includes detailed chapter summaries and analysis covering 2 parts, as well as several more in-depth sections of expert-written literary analysis. Featured content includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay topics, and key themes like Friendship and Valor.

Demigods and Monsters

Author	: Rick Riordan
Publisher	: BenBella Books, Inc.
Release Date	: 2013-07-02
ISBN 10	: 9781937856373
Pages	: 288 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (563 users)

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Download or read book Demigods and Monsters written by Rick Riordan and published by BenBella Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Which Greek god makes the best parent? Would you want to be one of Artemis' Hunters? Why do so many monsters go into retail? Spend a little more time in Percy Jackson's world—a place where the gods bike among us, monsters man snack bars, and each of us has the potential to become a hero. Find out: • Why Dionysus might actually be the best director Camp Half-Blood could have • How to recognize a monster when you see one • Why even if we aren't facing manticores and minotaurs, reading myth can still help us deal with the scary things in our own lives Plus, consult our glossary of people, places, and things from Greek myth: how Medusa got her snake hair extensions, why Chiron isn't into partying and paintball like the rest of his centaur family, and the whole story on Percy's mythical namesake.