To all my librarian friends, champions of books, true magicians in the House of Life. Without you, this writer would be lost in the Dust.

Oh, Hazel is awesome," Don Said. "She's so nice! All the other campers are like 'Go away Don.' But she's like 'Please go away, Don.' I love her!

No which fish are big enough to land

Grover was sniffing the wind, looking nervous. He fished out his acorns and threw them into the sand, then played his pipes. They rearranged themselves in a pattern that made no sense to me, but Grover looked concerned. "That's us," he said. "Those five nuts right there." "Which one is me?" I asked. "The little deformed one," Zoe suggested. "Oh, shut up.

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.

Rachel: They asked me a lot of questions about you. I played dumb. Annabeth: Was it hard?

I wasn't aiming at the school bus, but of course I got expelled anyway.