I love Norse mythology - Thor and Odin and Loki - amazing characters.

trantulus casually roasted a marshmallow and reached out for it but the marshmallow commited sucide and dived into the flames.

A giant vulture with a girl hanging from its feet tends to attract attention.

Hey, ugly!" Annabeth yelled. I hoped she was talking to the giant, not me.

I think anytime you're writing to the middle grades, you're writing to young readers who are trapped in a number of ways between two worlds: between childhood and adulthood, between their friends and their parents.

You remind me of myself ” Bes continued “back when I was a young dwarf. You got a stubborn streak. When it comes to girl problems you’re clueless.

Whasthat!" "Um ... those are the toilets.