The Last Guardian, the eighth and final book in Eoin Colfer's best-selling Artemis Fowl series about a teenage criminal mastermind, won't be published until July 10, but he's releasing an exclusive excerpt here.
His publisher, Disney, is revealing the book cover and announcing that the first printing will be 1 million copies. The last three books in the series, aimed at kids 10 and up, have hit the top 10 on USA TODAY's Best-selling Books list. Disney reports more than 13 million copies in print in the USA.
As for the ending, Colfer, from his home in Ireland, tells USA TODAY that "Artemis's story...
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