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As we're waiting to return to Camp Half-Blood, what better time to put together a list of books that have that same Percy Jackson vibe?

With more than 30 authors and illustrators introducing and signing new work at CI2023, booksellers will head home with tall to-be-read stacks and an abundance of fresh ideas.

There was a horrible power in the Ishanis’ twisted words, something not of the gods at all. I did not know if it was the feather or the scroll, or perhaps the act of bringing the two together, but whatever was written by the white-clad outlander was taken from our minds. I wondered if he were an evil spirit, able to reach inside our heads and pluck the knowledge from within. But when I tried to tell my grandmother so at the cookfire that evening, I found I no longer knew how to put my feelings into words.

From the July 2022 issue of Notes from the Horn Book.

PW spoke with eight authors, both veterans and newcomers, about the joys and challenges of writing for teens.