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Rick Riordan

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Richard Russell Riordan Jr. (born June 5, 1964), is an American author. [1]

80 relations: Alamo Heights High School, American Library Association, Ancient Egyptian deities, Ancient Greece, Anthony Awards, Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, Big Red Tequila, BookExpo America, Bulgaria, Detective fiction, Disney Publishing Worldwide, Dyslexia, Edgar Award, Egyptian mythology, Fantasy, Fox News, Gordon Korman, Greek mythology, Guys Read, Hachette Books, Hinduism, Imprint (trade name), Jude Watson, Korean mythology, Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, Mark Twain Readers Award, Maya mythology, Mythology, Norse mythology, Percy Jackson & the Olympians, Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, Percy Jackson (film series), Percy Jackson's Greek Gods, Peter Lerangis, Poseidon, Powell's Books, Publishers Weekly, Puffin Books, Rebecca Caudill, Roger Lancelyn Green, Roman mythology, Roshani Chokshi, San Antonio, Scholastic Corporation, School Library Journal, Sequel, Shamus Award, Stonewall Book Award, The 39 Clues, The Battle of the Labyrinth, ..., The Blood of Olympus, The Crown of Ptolemy, The Dark Prophecy, The Demigod Diaries, The Demigod Files, The Heroes of Olympus, The Hidden Oracle, The Horn Book Magazine, The House of Hades, The Kane Chronicles, The Last Olympian, The Lightning Thief, The Lost Hero, The Mark of Athena, The Maze of Bones, The New York Times Best Seller list, The Red Pyramid, The Sea of Monsters, The Serpent's Shadow (Riordan novel), The Son of Neptune, The Son of Sobek, The Staff of Serapis, The Sword of Summer, The Throne of Fire, The Titan's Curse, The Trials of Apollo, University of Texas at San Antonio, Vespers Rising, Yoon Ha Lee, 20th Century Fox. Expand index (30 more) »

Alamo Heights High School

Alamo Heights High School is a public high school located in the city of Alamo Heights, Texas and is the only high school in the Alamo Heights Independent School District.

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American Library Association

The American Library Association (ALA) is a nonprofit organization based in the United States that promotes libraries and library education internationally.

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Ancient Egyptian deities

Ancient Egyptian deities are the gods and goddesses worshipped in ancient Egypt.

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Ancient Greece

Ancient Greece was a civilization belonging to a period of Greek history from the Greek Dark Ages of the 13th–9th centuries BC to the end of antiquity (AD 600).

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Anthony Awards

The Anthony Awards are literary awards for mystery writers presented at the Bouchercon World Mystery Convention since 1986.

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Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a mental disorder of the neurodevelopmental type.

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Big Red Tequila

Big Red Tequila (Bantam, 1997) is the first novel in Rick Riordan's series Tres Navarre and his first ever published book.

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BookExpo America

BookExpo America (commonly referred to within the book publishing industry as BEA) is the largest annual book trade fair in the United States.

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Bulgaria

Bulgaria (България, tr.), officially the Republic of Bulgaria (Република България, tr.), is a country in southeastern Europe.

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Detective fiction

Detective fiction is a subgenre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an investigator or a detective—either professional, amateur or retired—investigates a crime, often murder.

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Disney Publishing Worldwide

Disney Publishing Worldwide (DPW), formerly known as The Disney Publishing Group and Buena Vista Publishing Group, is the publishing subsidiary of Walt Disney Parks, Experiences and Consumer Products, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company.

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Dyslexia

Dyslexia, also known as reading disorder, is characterized by trouble with reading despite normal intelligence.

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Edgar Award

The Edgar Allan Poe Awards (popularly called the Edgars), named after Edgar Allan Poe, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America, based in New York City.

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Egyptian mythology

Egyptian mythology is the collection of myths from ancient Egypt, which describe the actions of the Egyptian gods as a means of understanding the world.

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Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction set in a fictional universe, often without any locations, events, or people referencing the real world.

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Fox News

Fox News (officially known as the Fox News Channel, commonly abbreviated to FNC) is an American basic cable and satellite television news channel owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a subsidiary of 21st Century Fox.

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Gordon Korman

Gordon Korman (born October 23, 1963) is a Canadian American author.

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Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths and teachings that belong to the ancient Greeks, concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices.

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Guys Read

Guys Read is a web-based literacy program for boys founded by author Jon Scieszka in 2001.

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Hachette Books

Hachette Books, formerly Hyperion Books, is a general-interest book imprint division of the Hachette established in 1990.

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Hinduism

Hinduism is an Indian religion and dharma, or a way of life, widely practised in the Indian subcontinent.

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Imprint (trade name)

An imprint of a publisher is a trade name under which it publishes a work.

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Jude Watson

Judy Blundell, pseudonym Jude Watson, is an American author of books for middle grade, young adult, and adult readers.

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Korean mythology

Korean mythology refers to stories passed down by word of mouth over thousands of years on the Korean Peninsula.

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Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard

Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard is a trilogy of fantasy novels written by American author Rick Riordan and published by Disney-Hyperion.

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Mark Twain Readers Award

The Mark Twain Readers Award, or simply Mark Twain Award, is a children's book award which annually recognizes one book selected by vote of Missouri schoolchildren from a list prepared by librarians and volunteer readers.

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Maya mythology

Maya mythology is part of Mesoamerican mythology and comprises all of the Maya tales in which personified forces of nature, deities, and the heroes interacting with these play the main roles.

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Mythology

Mythology refers variously to the collected myths of a group of people or to the study of such myths.

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Norse mythology

Norse mythology is the body of myths of the North Germanic people stemming from Norse paganism and continuing after the Christianization of Scandinavia and into the Scandinavian folklore of the modern period.

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Percy Jackson & the Olympians

Percy Jackson & the Olympians, often shortened to Percy Jackson, is a pentalogy of fantasy adventure novels written by American author Rick Riordan, and the first book series in the Camp Half-Blood Chronicles.

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Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief

Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (also known as Percy Jackson & the Lightning Thief) is a 2010 fantasy film directed by Chris Columbus.

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Percy Jackson (film series)

Percy Jackson & the Olympians (also known as Percy Jackson) is an American feature film series loosely based on the novel series of the same name by the author Rick Riordan.

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Percy Jackson's Greek Gods

Percy Jackson's Greek Gods is a collection of short stories about Greek mythology as narrated by Percy Jackson.

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Peter Lerangis

Peter Duncan Lerangis (born in Brooklyn, New York in 1955) is an American author of children's and young adult fiction, best known for his Seven Wonders series.

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Poseidon

Poseidon (Ποσειδῶν) was one of the Twelve Olympians in ancient Greek religion and myth.

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Powell's Books

Powell's Books is a chain of bookstores in Portland, Oregon, and its surrounding metropolitan area.

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Publishers Weekly

Publishers Weekly (PW) is an American weekly trade news magazine targeted at publishers, librarians, booksellers and literary agents.

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Puffin Books

Puffin Books is a longstanding children's imprint of the British publishers Penguin Books.

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Rebecca Caudill

Rebecca Caudill Ayars (February 2, 1899 – October 2, 1985) was an American author of children's literature with more than twenty books published.

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Roger Lancelyn Green

Roger (Gilbert) Lancelyn Green (2 November 1918 – 8 October 1987) was a British biographer and children's writer.

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Roman mythology

Roman mythology is the body of traditional stories pertaining to ancient Rome's legendary origins and religious system, as represented in the literature and visual arts of the Romans.

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Roshani Chokshi

Roshani Chokshi (Born February 14, 1991) is an American novelist, the author of the young adult novels The Star Touched Queen (2016) and A Crown of Wishes (2017).

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San Antonio

San Antonio (Spanish for "Saint Anthony"), officially the City of San Antonio, is the seventh most populous city in the United States and the second most populous city in both Texas and the Southern United States.

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Scholastic Corporation

Scholastic Corporation is an American multinational publishing, education and media company known for publishing, selling, and distributing books and educational materials for schools, teachers, parents, and children.

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School Library Journal

The School Library Journal is a monthly magazine with articles and reviews for school librarians, media specialists, and public librarians who work with young people.

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Sequel

A sequel is a literature, film, theatre, television, music or video game that continues the story of, or expands upon, some earlier work.

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Shamus Award

The Shamus Award is awarded by the Private Eye Writers of America (PWA) for the best detective fiction genre novels and short stories of the year.

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Stonewall Book Award

The Stonewall Book Award is a set of three literary awards that annually recognize "exceptional merit relating to the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender experience" in English-language books published in the U.S. They are sponsored by the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table (GLBTRT) of the American Library Association (ALA) and have been part of the American Library Association awards program, now termed ALA Book, Print & Media Awards, since 1986 as the single Gay Book Award.

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The 39 Clues

The 39 Clues is a series of adventure novels written by a collaboration of authors, including Rick Riordan, Gordon Korman, Peter Lerangis, Jude Watson, Patrick Carman, Linda Sue Park, Margaret Peterson Haddix, Roland Smith, David Baldacci, Jeff Hirsch, Natalie Standiford, C. Alexander London, Sarwat Chadda and Jenny Goebel.

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The Battle of the Labyrinth

The Battle of the Labyrinth is an American fantasy-adventure novel based on Greek mythology written by Rick Riordan.

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The Blood of Olympus

The Blood of Olympus is an American fantasy-adventure novel written by Rick Riordan, based on Greek and Roman mythology.

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The Crown of Ptolemy

The Crown of Ptolemy is the third and last book in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians and The Kane Chronicles crossover series.

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The Dark Prophecy

The Dark Prophecy is an American fantasy novel based on Greek and Roman mythology written by Rick Riordan.

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The Demigod Diaries

The Demigod Diaries is collection of short stories relating to The Heroes of Olympus book series.

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The Demigod Files

The Demigod Files is a collection of stories by Rick Riordan published on February 10, 2009.

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The Heroes of Olympus

The Heroes of Olympus is a pentalogy of fantasy-adventure novels written by American author Rick Riordan.

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The Hidden Oracle

The Hidden Oracle is a fantasy novel based on Greek and Roman mythology written by Rick Riordan.

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The Horn Book Magazine

The Horn Book Magazine, founded in Boston in 1924, is a bimonthly periodical about literature for children and young adults.

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The House of Hades

The House of Hades is a fantasy-adventure novel written by American author Rick Riordan, based on Greek and Roman mythology.

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The Kane Chronicles

The Kane Chronicles is a trilogy of adventure and Egyptian mythological fiction books written by American author Rick Riordan.

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The Last Olympian

The Last Olympian is a fantasy-adventure novel based on Greek mythology by Rick Riordan, published on May 5, 2009.

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The Lightning Thief

The Lightning Thief is an American fantasy-adventure novel based on Greek mythology, the first young adult novel written by Rick Riordan in the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series.

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The Lost Hero

The Lost Hero is an American fantasy-adventure novel written by Rick Riordan, based on Greek and Roman mythology.

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The Mark of Athena

The Mark of Athena is an American fantasy-adventure novel written by Rick Riordan, based on Greek and Roman mythology.

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The Maze of Bones

The Maze of Bones is the first novel of The 39 Clues series, written by Rick Riordan and published September 9, 2008 by Scholastic.

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The New York Times Best Seller list

The New York Times Best Seller list is widely considered the preeminent list of best-selling books in the United States.

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The Red Pyramid

The Red Pyramid is a 2010 fantasy-adventure novel based on Egyptian mythology written by Rick Riordan.

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The Sea of Monsters

The Sea of Monsters is an American fantasy-adventure novel based on Greek mythology written by Rick Riordan and published in 2006.

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The Serpent's Shadow (Riordan novel)

The Serpent's Shadow is a 2012 fantasy adventure novel based on Egyptian mythology written by American author Rick Riordan.

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The Son of Neptune

The Son of Neptune is a 2011 fantasy-adventure novel written by American author Rick Riordan, based on Greek and Roman mythology.

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The Son of Sobek

The Son of Sobek is a 2013 fantasy short story written by Rick Riordan.

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The Staff of Serapis

The Staff of Serapis is the sequel to The Son of Sobek and the second book in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians/The Kane Chronicles crossover series.

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The Sword of Summer

The Sword of Summer is a young-adult fantasy novel based on Norse mythology written by American author Rick Riordan.

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The Throne of Fire

The Throne of Fire is a 2011 fantasy adventure novel written by American author Rick Riordan.

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The Titan's Curse

The Titan's Curse is an American fantasy-adventure novel based on Greek mythology written by Rick Riordan.

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The Trials of Apollo

The Trials of Apollo is a pentalogy of fantasy adventure and mythological fiction novels written by American author Rick Riordan that collectively form a sequel to the Heroes of Olympus series.

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University of Texas at San Antonio

The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) is a state research university in San Antonio, Texas, United States.

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Vespers Rising

Vespers Rising is a part of The 39 Clues franchise, which includes the 39 Clues books, card packs, and interactive online games.

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Yoon Ha Lee

Yoon Ha Lee (born January 26, 1979 in Houston, Texas) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer, known for his Machineries of Empire space opera novels and his short fiction.

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20th Century Fox

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, doing business as 20th Century Fox, is an American film studio currently owned by 21st Century Fox.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Riordan

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