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    Tweens rejoice! Rick Riordan has a new Percy Jackson book coming out.

    Jonny Diamond
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    October 19, 2022, 11:15am

    Rick Riordan will be publishing a new Percy Jackson book—the first in 14 years—next September. I only hope that my now-11-year-old won’t be too cool by then for Riordan’s entertainingly contemporary take on Greek mythology (he currently loves everything Riordan’s ever written).

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    The book, called The Chalice of the Gods, is described thusly on Read Riordan:

    ​​After saving the world multiple times, Percy Jackson is hoping to have a normal senior year of high school. Unfortunately, the gods aren’t quite done with him. Percy will have to fulfill a new quest in order to get the necessary letter of recommendation from Mount Olympus for his application to New Rome University.

    Yup, looks like a classic case of demigod senioritis.

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