I always love it when I hear back from kids who say they discovered Percy Jackson and now wear their learning difference as a badge of honour.

Forget the chicken-nugget smoke screen. Percy wanted Leo to invent an anti-dream hat.

I nodded, looking at Rachel with respect. "You hit the Lord of the Titans in the eye with a blue plastic hairbrush.

Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.

Akhlys lunged at Percy, and for a split second he thought: Well, hey, I’m just smoke. She can’t touch me, right? He imagined the Fates up in Olympus, laughing at his wishful thinking: LOL, NOOB!

Did you bring me a rat?" "He has no time for rats, George." "No time for rats? That's just sad.

I imagined having that bronzed dragon in our fight against the Titan lord Kronos. His monsters would think twice about attacking camp if they have to face that thing. On the other hand, if the dragon decided to go berserk again and attack the campers-that would pretty much stink.