I woke to a bucket of ice water in my face. “Sadie! Get up,” Zia said. “God!” I yelled. “Was that necessary?” “No,” admitted Zia.

Yours in demigodishness, and all that. Peace out!

I come to writing the same way I come to teaching, which is that my goal is always to create life-long readers.

She had to go on this quest. The fate of the world might depend on it. But part of him wanted to say: Forget the world. He didn’t want to be without her.

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

Ever come home and found your room messed up? Like some helpful person (hi, Mom) has tried to "clean" it, and suddenly you can't find anything? And even if nothing is missing, you get that creepy feeling like somebody's been looking through your private stuff and dusting everything with lemon furniture polish?

Leo could run pretty fast when someone was trying to kill him. Sadly, he’d had a lot of practice.