Five shall go west to the goddess in chains, One shall be lost in the land without rain, The bane of Olympus shows the trail, Campers and Hunters combined prevail, The Titan's curse must one withstand, And one shall perish by a parent's hand

If you ever leave me again,’ she said, her eyes stinging, ‘I swear to all the gods-‘ Percy had the nerve to laugh. Suddenly the lump of heated emotions melted inside Annabeth. ‘Consider me warned,’ Percy said. ‘I missed you, too.

Annabeth sat up and glared at her ankle. "You HAD to break," she scolded it. The ankle did not reply.

Please, Percy...change your clothes. You smell like you've been run over by an electric horse.

Words had started swimming off the page, circling my head, the letters doing one-eighties as if they were riding skateboards.

Young people don't always do what they're told, but if they can pull it off and do something wonderful, sometimes they escape punishment.

Fortunately, we did most of our athletic stuff inside, so we didn't have to jog through Tribeca looking like a bunch of boot-camp hippie children.