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Percy Jackson’s Greek Gods is a collection of stories from Greek mythology told from the point of view of Percy Jackson. The book was released on August 19th, 2014.

On April 21, 2013, Rick Riordan announced on his Twitter that he was writing a new book based on the stories of Greek mythology from Percy Jackson's point of view. He later confirmed this in his blog. Riordan will be reading an excerpt from the book during his House of Hades tour. While on tour for The House of Hades Rick Riordan also revealed that the book is 450 pages long, with illustrations throughout the whole entire book and will come out in August 2014. John Rocco, the illustrator of the book, announced that there will be 60 full-color paintings drawn by him in the book, and gave a sneak peek of one, depicting Hades stealing Persephone. A preview of the first chapter was included in the free e-book Mega-Awesome Adventures on March 4, 2014. Two more previews came out from Waterstones Blog and the Guardian.

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