Teachers and librarians are some of my favorite people, especially since I was a teacher myself. I love talking to them because they have wonderful ideas about how to share books, and especially about how to share my books with kids.

His lion and hippo legs twitched. I wondered if netherworld monsters dreamed of chasing rabbits.

I know you'll do what's best for Annabeth." "How can you be sure?" "Because she'd do the same for you.

The end of the world started when a pegasus landed on the hood of my car

See, bad things happen to me on field trips. Like at my fifth-grade school, when we went to the Saratoga battlefield, I had this accident with a Revolutionary War cannon. I wasn't aiming for the school bus, but of course I got expelled anyway. - Percy Jackson

Now, leave." All three boys slumped forward. Percy fell face-first into his pizza. "Percy!" Annabeth grabbed him.

Yeah, well,” Nico said, “not giving people a second thought…that can be dangerous.