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" I think anytime you're writing to the middle grades, you're writing to young readers who are trapped in a number of ways between two worlds: between childhood and adulthood, between their friends and their parents. "

Rick Riordan

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" I love Norse mythology - Thor and Odin and Loki - amazing characters. "

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