Check out this wonderful article on Rick Riordan and the changing world of kid’s literature.

Warning: this article contains spoilers for “The House of Hades.”

Percy Jackson: The New World of Kid Lit via BookRiot

Rick Riordan’s Heroes of Olympus series is technically closer to YA than the Percy Jackson series, but only because the characters are older. (And even then, not all of its characters are). Percy is 17, but you have characters anywhere from 13 to adults. And it’s clean. There’s no cursing, there are a few on-screen kisses (but that’s as far as that goes), and it’s violent, but not scarily so. It’s a great kid lit series. Read more…