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Stop #3 on The Chronicles of Egg Blog Tour! Today author Geoff Rodkey talks about one of the more
unusual characters in the first book Deadweather and Sunrise, Percy.
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Deadweather Island--the filthy,
muggy, pirate-and-volcano infested home of Deadweather and Sunrise's
13-year-old hero Egg Masterson--isn't exactly known for its top-notch school
system. So it's no wonder that Egg's father, Hoke, has to advertise on
neighboring islands to find a tutor who will educate his three kids.
Unfortunately for Egg and his
siblings, the only tutor crazy (or desperate) enough to live on Deadweather is
Percy--the lazy, slovenly, mean-spirited owner of 137 books he's never bothered
to read. But Percy's ignorance doesn't stop him from filling his charges' heads
with no end of facts, all of them spectacularly wrong:
"Percy, where does wind come
from?"
"A hole in the sky."
"Where's the hole?"
(points) "Right over
there."
"Why can't I see it?"
"Why is seawater salty?"
"Fish poop."
"How do you multiply a
fraction?"
"You can't."
"Why not?"
"It'll break."
"Do horses ever eat
people?"
"Constantly. Now leave me
alone, boy. I'm trying to nap."
Fortunately, by the time Egg's
father takes the family on a mysterious errand to glamorous Sunrise Island,
he's managed to read all 137 of Percy's books by himself, so he knows a few
things.
And that's all to the good--because
someone's trying to kill Egg, and he'll need every bit of smarts he's got to
figure out why.
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