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My name is Percy Jackson. I'm twelve years old. Until a few months ago, I was a boarding student at Yancy Academy, a private school for troubled kids in upstate New York. Am I a troubled kid? Yeah. You could say that.

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Rick Riordan
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: June 5
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Richard Russell Riordan
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