[Middle School: the Worst Years of My Life] (By: James Patterson) [published: August, 2014] Paperback ? August 14, 2014

by James Patterson (Author)

Welcome to New York City’s Upper East Side where my friends and I live, and go to school, and play, and sleep – sometimes with each other.We all live in huge apartments with our own bedrooms and bathrooms and phone lines.

Everyone who’s anyone in New York City is suffering from post-college-application cabin fever and it’s time to run a little wild! Could it be that Serena is smitten with Blair’s stepbrother or will the Fashion Week parties pull her away from any attempt at true love?

All year the half-bloods have been preparing for battle against the Titans, knowing the odds of victory are grim. Kronos’s army is stronger than ever, and with every god and half-blood he recruits, the evil Titan’s power only grows. While the Olympians struggle to contain the rampaging monster Typhon, Kronos begins his advance on New York City, where Mount Olympus stands virtually unguarded. Now it’s up to Percy Jackson and an army of young demigods to stop the Lord of Time.

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As the three Baudelaire orphans warily approach their new home Prufrock Preparatory School : they can?t help but notice the enormous stone arch bearing the school?s motto Memento Mori or “Remember you will die.” This is not a cheerful greeting and certainly marks an inauspicious beginning to a very bleak story just as we have come to expect from Lemony Snickett?s Series of Unfortunate Events, the deliciously morbid set of books that began with The Bad Beginning and only got worse.

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