I saw 'The 39 Clues' as a potential vehicle for doing some education in a fun way - to take some of these amazing stories from history, dust them off and make them alive.

I get letters from college kids who have read Percy Jackson when they were younger who tell me, 'I just passed my Classics exam.' The books are accurate enough that they can serve as a gateway to Homer and Virgil.

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

My mother was gone. The whole world should be black and cold. Nothing should look beautiful.

Sometimes things don't end okay.

If i'm going to survive, it won't be because i have a lion-skin cloak. I'm not Hercules.

I guess it started in London, the night our dad blew up the British museum.