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Guys Read: Artemis Begins: A Short Story from Guys Read: Funny Business
By Eoin Colfer, Adam Rex and Jon Scieszka
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About this ebook
Long before Artemis Fowl appeared in Eoin Colfer’s hit series, he was born in the form of Eoin’s younger brother Donal--the “young criminal mastermind” of the family. And on one particular spring day, he concocts his most sinister plot yet. A short story from the acclaimed collection Guys Read: Funny Business, edited by Jon Scieszka.
Author
Eoin Colfer
Eoin Colfer is the New York Times bestselling author of the Artemis Fowl series as well as two adult crime novels, Plugged, which was short-listed for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and Screwed. He lives in Ireland with his wife and two children.
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Book preview
Guys Read - Eoin Colfer
Artemis Begins
By Eoin Colfer
A Short Story from
Guys Read: Funny Business
Volume 1 of the Guys Read Library of Great Reading
Edited by Jon Scieszka
With an illustration by Adam Rex
Contents
Cover
Title Page
ARTEMIS BEGINS
Guys E-Read
Biographies
Back Ad
Copyright
About the Publisher
image1ARTEMIS BEGINS
BY EOIN COLFER
I have four brothers. That’s five boys altogether all living in a small house, which is a recipe for major property damage at the very least. As kids, each of us had our assigned roles in the family, pretty much like the members of boy bands do today. Paul, the eldest, was the wise and reliable one. I was the aspiring writer, bespectacled and be-notebooked. Eamonn was the tearaway, never without a nest of twigs in his hair and a bleeding cut on his knee.
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