Lookin up at the huge baboons, I wondered if Khufu had some sort of secret baboon code that would get us in. But instead he barked at the statues and cowered heroically behind my legs.

And now, Anubis, I find you in this den of iniquity, this morass of questionable behavior, this...this--' 'School?

She glared at me like she was about to punch me, but then she did something that surprised me even more. She kissed me. "Be careful seaweed brain." She said putting on her invisible cap and disappearing. I probably would have sat there all day, trying to remember my name, but then the sea demons came.

Forget the chicken-nugget smoke screen. Percy wanted Leo to invent an anti-dream hat.

That's what happens when it snows in Texas lady. It. Freaking. Melts.

Coach Hedge grumbled as he tended their wounds. “How come I never get invited on these violent trips?

You do know how to play pinochle?" Mr. D eyed me suspiciously. "I'm afraid not," I said. "I'm afraid not, sir," he said. "Well," he told me, "it is, along with gladiator fighting and Pac-Man, one of the greatest games ever invented by humans. I would expect all civilized young men to know the rules.