Part Eight: Gaia's Promise

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Part Eight: Gaia's Promise

How to Be Super: The Bridge Between (Book Three)

In which Selena not only learns for sure who her friends truly are — but that the reason why the oracle looks familiar, the reason why she can tell the truth about people, the reason why her grandparents felt so close to her — was because she was the current incarnation of the most powerful goddess of all.

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Topics: Superheroes

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Selena

How to Be Super: The Bridge Between (Book Three)

Part Eighteen: The Greater Good

Part Eighteen: The Greater Good

Selena learns a defining difference between the Gods and the Titans, and what she learns helps her deepen her commitment to her family, and to the Titans.
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Part Seventeen: It All Happened Before

Part Seventeen: It All Happened Before

Selena and Squeaky meet with Uranos and the Titan of Memory, Mnemosyne, who tell them a story about war — war that happened long ago, so many times.
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Part Eight: Gaia's Promise

Part Eight: Gaia's Promise

Selena learns the reason behind all of her special "powers" — she is the current incarnation of the most powerful goddess of all!
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Part Twenty Two: Titanomachy

Part Twenty Two: Titanomachy

In this final part of the story, Selena, Squeaky, and Uranos join forces to subvert the war, but something unexpected happens that puts Selena and her friends in danger.
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Part Twenty One: The Inquiry

Part Twenty One: The Inquiry

Selena learns that the Titan families need her help. Does she help them defeat her friends? Does she remain neutral? Or does she intentionally subvert the war?
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Part Twenty: The War Room

Part Twenty: The War Room

Selena is invited to help the Titan families plan for the impending war with the Olympians and learns from her father that she is free to decide her destiny.
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Part Nineteen: Blue Hole

Part Nineteen: Blue Hole

Selena and Squeaky meet members of the subversive Titan families and learn more about the nature of conflict, war, and the importance of finding a new way of doing things.
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Part Sixteen: The World Tree

Part Sixteen: The World Tree

Selena's new friend, Squeaky, explains how the family system works for the Titans, using a tree and it's branches as a metaphor.
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Part Fifteen: Seven Cities of Gold

Part Fifteen: Seven Cities of Gold

In which Selena discovers a book written in the 1800's about the fabled “Seven Cities of Gold” and learns that they not only existed in the United States, but all over the world.
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Part Fourteen: One Hundred and Eight Years

Part Fourteen: One Hundred and Eight Years

Selena meets the person that will change her life more than anyone she has ever met — a person she has never known, but who in a way, she has known forever.
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Part Thirteen: The Guest House

Part Thirteen: The Guest House

Selena and her family leave Austin, but their plans shift when a fancy van shows up to take them to their new home, and the "Guest House" is not what they were expecting.
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Part Twelve: A New Alliance

Part Twelve: A New Alliance

Selena writes a letter to Dante in hopes of connecting and finding an opportunity to be honest with each other, and discovers something that surprises her...
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Part Eleven: Disintegration

Part Eleven: Disintegration

Selena is finally able to visit Lance, but when she does he tells her that she has already visited him! What is going on?
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Part Ten: Taking Sides

Part Ten: Taking Sides

The stress and overwhelm builds so much that Selena finally tells her father everything and then feels strangely comforted by his response.
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Part Nine: Lost

Part Nine: Lost

As everything seems to be falling apart, Selena feels lost — but also feels responsible for losing her friends.
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Part Seven: The Betrayer

Part Seven: The Betrayer

When Lance, Manny and Dante learn important information from an oracle at Barton Springs, Selena realizes she's met this man before...
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Part Six: The Enemy

Part Six: The Enemy

Selena has a tiring day on campus, filled with adventure, revelation, and unfortunately... some bad news.
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Part Five: We Are Here

Part Five: We Are Here

The spontaneous images Selena sees teach her about her friends and trainers and that “Doing Something Brave” is not at all what she thought it would be.
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Part Four: The Wild

Part Four: The Wild

Selena encounters the wild and free Artemis who encourages her to pay close attention. She does, and what she learns both excites and terrifies her.
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Part Three: The Hippocampi

Part Three: The Hippocampi

Selena connects with her new friends and is able to relax and let others hold the weight of responsibility she has always felt, until she learns one of her friends is going to betray her.
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Part Two: The Triple Goddess

Part Two: The Triple Goddess

Selena closes out her school year by meeting the docent of the Elisabet Ney museum and realizes the woman is far more powerful and ancient than anyone knew.
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Part One: The Prophecy

Part One: The Prophecy

On Selena's 12th birthday she's shocked to find that the story her grandfather tells her every year seems to be coming true!
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