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12th February 2010ISBN
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Flips: Percy Jackson (Nintendo DS)
Rick Riordan
Part of the 'Flips' Series
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Half Boy. Half God. All Hero. Join Percy Jackson as he teams up with other demigods to battle mythical foes! Young Percy Jackson goes off on a quest to help his real father, Poseidon, avert a war among the gods. With the help of his friends, Percy must journey across the United States to catch a thief who has stolen the original weapon of mass destruction - Zeus’ master bolt. Along the way, they face a host of mythological enemies determined to stop them.
Featuring on this game card you’ll find 5 Percy Jackson interactive books by Rick Riordan - The Lightning Thief, The Sea of Monsters, The Titan’s Curse, The Battle of the Labyrinth, The Last Olympian, plus plus 2 extra books including The Demigod FilesCollect coins to unlock info in the bestiary and in the family tree of the Greek Gods! – Coins can be discovered throughout the books. Once collected, coins can be spent in either the bestiary or in the family tree. The bestiary provides pictures and information about each of the monsters. The family tree shows the relationships between the God’s and Demi-Gods, as well as providing extra information from The Penguin Dictionary of Classical Mythology
Touch links to see interesting facts - get quick reminders on who each of the Greek Gods are.
Share a chapter with your friends – Use the DS wireless connections to share a sample chapter and unlock bonus content!
Hold your DS like a book, use the stylus or your finger on the touch screen or the direction buttons to turn the pages. Click on links in the text and character profiles, location details and extra information pops up. You can even share a chapter with friends using the DS wireless connections and unlock more bonus content.
Synopsis
Flips: Percy Jackson (Nintendo DS) by Rick Riordan
The Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan exclusively for your Nintendo DS!
The gods of Olympus are alive in the 21st Century. They still fall in love with mortals and have children who might become great heroes, but most of these children meet horrible fates at the hands of monsters. Only a few learn the truth of their identity and make it to Half Blood Hill, a Long Island summer camp dedicated to training young demigods.
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About The Author
Rick Riordan is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Percy Jackson and the Olympians series for children and the multi-award-winning Tres Navarre mystery series for adults.
For fifteen years, Rick taught English and history at public and private middle schools in the San Francisco Bay Area and in Texas, USA. In 2002, Saint Mary’s Hall honored him with the school’s first Master Teacher Award.
His adult fiction has won the top three national awards in the mystery genre – the Edgar, the Anthony and the Shamus. His short fiction has appeared in Mary Higgins Clark Mystery Magazine and Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine.
His Percy Jackson series features a twelve-year-old dyslexic boy who discovers he is the modern-day son of a Greek god. The Lightning Thief was a New York Times Notable Book for 2005 and winner of the Red House Children's Book Award 2006. Film rights were purchased by Twentieth Century Fox and a feature film version was released in 2010. The Sea of Monsters was a Child Magazine Best Book for Children for 2006 and a Publishers Weekly and BookSense national bestseller. The third title, The Titan’s Curse, made the series a #1 New York Times bestseller, and the most recent title, The Battle of the Labyrinth, had a first printing of one million copies.
Rick Riordan now writes full-time. He lives in San Antonio with his wife and two sons.
To find out more about Percy Jackson - visit www.percyjackson.co.uk
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