Daughter of the Deep
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Series by Rick Riordan
PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS
THE KANE CHRONICLES
THE HEROES OF OLYMPUS
MAGNUS CHASE AND THE GODS OF ASGARD
THE TRIALS OF APOLLO
Text Copyright © 2021 by Rick Riordan
Illustrations © 2021 by Lavanya Naidu
Cover art © 2021 by Lavanya Naidu
Hand-lettering by Russ Gray
Cover design by Joann Hill
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Contents
Title Page
Copyright
Epigraph
Foreword
Introduction
Harding-Pencroft Academy
The Freshman Class of Harding-Pencroft
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-Two
Chapter Twenty-Three
Chapter Twenty-Four
Chapter Twenty-Five
Chapter Twenty-Six
Chapter Twenty-Seven
Chapter Twenty-Eight
Chapter Twenty-Nine
Chapter Thirty
Chapter Thirty-One
Chapter Thirty-Two
Chapter Thirty-Three
Chapter Thirty-Four
Chapter Thirty-Five
Chapter Thirty-Six
Chapter Thirty-Seven
Chapter Thirty-Eight
Chapter Thirty-Nine
Chapter Forty
Chapter Forty-One
Chapter Forty-Two
Chapter Forty-Three
Chapter Forty-Four
Chapter Forty-Five
Chapter Forty-Six
Chapter Forty-Seven
Chapter Forty-Eight
Chapter Forty-Nine
Chapter Fifty
Chapter Fifty-One
Chapter Fifty-Two
Chapter Fifty-Three
Chapter Fifty-Four
Chapter Fifty-Five
Chapter Fifty-Six
Chapter Fifty-Seven
Chapter Fifty-Eight
Chapter Fifty-Nine
Chapter Sixty
Chapter Sixty-One
Chapter Sixty-Two
Chapter Sixty-Three
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Nature’s creative power
is far beyond man’s
instinct of destruction.
—Jules Verne,
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
FOREWORD
Don’t Pick Up a Starfish by Its Arm
Did you know more than 80 percent of the ocean remains unexplored? EIGHTY, PEOPLE! It is very possible that at this moment a mermaid and a giant squid are munching on macroalgae macaroni and wondering when we’re going to catch up and discover that Atlantis was just a theme park that went terribly wrong. Who knows?
No one can say for certain, because so much of the ocean is unknown. And I am terrified of the unknown, so it goes without saying that I am absolutely terrified of the ocean. Perhaps it started when, at the age of ten, I picked up a starfish by one of its arms…and soon found myself holding a single wiggling appendage. At the time, I didn’t know that starfish arms could regenerate. I believed I was a murderer. I fell to my knees and bellowed with horror. (CURSE YE, FORMIDABLE MIGHT! SUCH INNOCENCE…DESTROYED! DOES THIS MEAN I CAN PERMANENTLY SKIP GYM?)