Uh, normally she doesn’t judo-flip people.

Piper had a new entry in her top-ten list of Times Piper Felt Useless. Fighting Shrimpzilla with a dagger and a pretty voice? Not so effective.

You trained Bill? Impressive.

Oh, yeah? Me too. Let’s see whose friend gets here first.

Annabeth:My fatal flaw. That’s what the Sirens showed me. My fatal flaw is hubris. Percy: the brown stuff they spread on veggie sandwiches?Annabeth:No, Seaweed Brain. That’s HUMMUS. hubris is worse.Percy: what could be worse than...

Hope,” Frank grumbled. “I’d rather have a few good weasels.

As soon as the rocky coast line of the island came into view, I ordered one of the ropes to wrap around Annabeth’s waist, tying her to the foremast. “Don’t untie me,” she said, “no...

Looking at the elementary schoolers in their colorful T-shirts from various day camps, Percy felt a twinge of sadness. He should be at Camp Half-Blood right now, settling into his cabin for the summer, teaching...

She wore an A-line bridal gown with a V-shaped neckline while Apollo playing Bach’s Air on the G string.

Once the others were below, Hazel and Leo faced each other awkwardly. They were alone except for Coach Hedge, who was back on the quarterdeck singing the Pokémon theme song. The coach had changed the...

Butch hesitated. “Annabeth’s okay. You gotta cut her some slack. She had a vision telling her to come here, to find a guy with one shoe. That was supposed to be the answer to her...

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

Jump in the harbor,” he said casually, like another kid might say, I’m going to get a snack.

How about you start from the top—of the story, not the backpack.

Even Cronus, the Titan who literally had his kids for breakfast, would find these facts hard to swallow.

Tempting,” Percy called down.

Annabeth realized that if six of them went on these two quests, it would leave Percy alone on the ship with Coach Hedge, which was maybe not a situation a caring girlfriend should put him...

So your brother is a winged horse. But you’re also my half brother, which means all the flying horses in the world are my…You know what? Lets’ forget it.

That makes absolutely no sense.

No, Pipes. It could be a random group of giant eagles flying in perfect formation. Of course they’re Roman!

This coming from the god who zinged Guinevere and Lancelot while King Arthur was away slaying dragons.

Please, Percy…change your clothes. You smell like you’ve been run over by an electric horse.

This is the Wilderness School. ‘Where the Kids are animals

He’d learned years ago it was better not to dwell too much on who was related to whom on the godly side of things. After Tyson the Cyclops adopted him as a brother, Percy decided...

Percy?” Annabeth gripped his arm.”Oh, bad,” he muttered. “Bad. Bad.” He looked across the table at Frank and Hazel. “You guys remember Polybotes?””The giant who invaded Camp Jupiter,” Hazel said. “The anti-Poseidon you whacked in...

Whoa,” said Nico as he climbed off the bus. “Is that a climbing wall?””Yeah,” I (Percy) said.”Why is there lava pouring down it?””Little extra challenge…” – Percy

The meeting was like a war council with donuts. Then again, back at Camp Half-Blood they used to have their most serious discussions around the Ping-Pong table in the rec room with crackers and Cheez...

Don’t you ever feel like, what if the world really IS messed up? What if we COULD Do it all over again from scratch? No more war. Nobody homeless. No more summer reading homework.’m listening....

I can input star charts and order you a smoothie, if you want. Of course I can do latitude and longitude!

Come on.

A hero can go anywhere, challenge anyone, as long as he has the nerve.

Percy was getting tired of water.If he said that aloud, he would probably get kicked out of Poseidon’s Junior Sea Scouts, but he didn’t care.

You do have a plan?”Percy wanted to step forward bravely and say, No, I don’t!

Dude, that sucks for you.

Because I’m looking at it.

We’re together.” He didn’t say you’re okay, or we’re alive. After all they’d been through over the last year, he knew that the most important thing was that they were together. She loved him for...

[Piper] rushed to get dressed. By the time she got up on deck, the others had already gathered—all hastily dressed except for Coach Hedge, who had pulled the night watch. Frank’s Vancouver Winter Olympics shirt...

It’s Bacchus, please. Or Mr. Bacchus. Or Lord Bacchus. Or, sometimes, Oh-My-Gods-Please-Don’t-Kill-Me, Lord Bacchus.

Percy, we’re going to Polyphemus’ island! Polyphemus is an S-i-k…a C-y-k…” She stamped her foot in frustration. As smart as she was, Annabeth was dyslexic, too. We could’ve been there all night while she tried...

As a general rule, I preferred not to have my soul reaped.

Yeah…we’ve been having conversations like that all night. I still don’t know what she’s talking about.

That is exactly how people beat Chinese handcuffs. They turn into iguanas.

Which reminded me…I still owed the gods a debt.”You’re a genius,” I (Percy) told Annabeth.

I missed you, Percy.”Percy wanted to tell her the same thing, but it seemed too small a comment. While he had been on the Roman side, he’d kept himself alive almost solely by thinking of...

I sat up in bed. “What did he say?”Tyson groaned, still half asleep. He was lying facedown on the couch, his feet so far over the edge they were in the bathroom. “The happy man...

Three quarters, two dimes, a rubber band and—score! A piece of celery.”He started munching on the celery, eyeing the change and the rubber band like they might be next.

If we can’t repair things with the Romans—well, the two sets of demigods have never gotten along. That’s why the gods kept us separate. I don’t know if we could ever belong there.”Percy didn’t want...

I am turning into a crazy dolphin.”He began to change, his nose elongating into a snout, his skin becoming sleek and gray. He fell to the deck as a dolphin, his tail thumping against the...

Gods, Percy, that’s so sweet.

My only thought was to keep him away from Annabeth.