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**Released just before the March 2013 feature film *Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters* , this new edition is updated through *The Last Olympian* , and includes several brand new essays!** The #1 *New York Times* bestselling Percy Jackson series— *The Lightning Thief* , *The Sea of Monsters* , *The Titan’s Curse* , *The Battle of the Labyrinth* , and *The Last Olympian* —features a dyslexic boy who discovers he is the son of a Greek god, the target of mythical Greek monsters, and the center of a prophecy that could change the balance of power in the world forever. In *Demigods and Monsters* , YA authors take on the series' Greek gods, demigods, monsters, and prophecy, to add insight and even more fun to Riordan’s page-turner series. The book also includes an introduction by Percy Jackson series author Rick Riordan that gives further insight into the series and its creation, and a glossary of ancient Greek myth, with plenty of information on the places, monsters, gods, and heroes that appear in the series.