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Grades Quotes by Rick Riordan
- I am committed to writing appropriate books for the middle grades. This means no bad language, no gratuitous or explicit violence, and no sexual content…
- My eighth grade teacher, Mrs. Pabst, had done her master's thesis on Tolkien. She showed me how the trilogy was patterned after Norse mythology. She…
- 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:…
- I've been reading Greek mythology since I was a kid. I also taught it when I was a sixth grade teacher, so I knew a…
- [My mom's] funny that way, celebrating special occasions with blue food. I think it's her way of saying anything is possible. Percy can pass seventh…
- All I could think of was that the teachers must've found the illegal stash of candy I'd been selling out of my dorms room. Or…
- See, bad things happen to me on field trips. Like at my fifth-grade school, when we went to the Saratoga battlefield, I had this accident…
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