One the next corner stood a cinder block restaurant with a hand-painted sign that read CHICKEN & WAFFLES. There was a queue of twenty people outside.You Americans have the strangest taste. What planet...
Once I got over the fact that my Latin teacher was a horse, we had a nice tour, though I was careful not to walk behind him. I'd done pooper-scooper patrol in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade a few...
On my life, Magnus, I swear this is the truth: your father is a Norse god. Now, hurry. We're in a twenty- minute parking spot.
On it! Hazel said. Go, Frank! Dragon Frank veered to the left with Annabeth in one claw yelling, Let’s get ’em! and Percy in the other claw screaming, I hate flying!
Oh, no way, Leo said. We've been sitting in a cave and you get the luxury tent? Somebody give me hypothermia. I want hot chocolate and a parka!
Now, sorry about that kill-on-sight business.
Nike could start you two fighting easily. Percy gave her a sideways smile. Yeah, we can’t have another incident like in Kansas. I might kill my bro Jason. Or I might kill my bro Percy, Jason said amia...
Nico twisted his skull ring. Around him, bones began to quiver as if they were trying to form a new skeleton. Whenever he got moody, Nico had that effect on the dead, kind of like Hazel’s curse. Betwe...
Nico remembered something Jason Grace had told him in the palace of Notus: Maybe it’s time you come out of the shadows. If only I could, he thought. For the first time in his life, he had begun to fea...
Nico jumped into the crowd, kicking groins, smacking faces with the flat of his blade, bashing helmets with his pommel. In ten seconds, the Romans all lay groaning and dazed on the ground.
Nereus spun and expanded, turning into a killer whale, but I grabbed his dorsal fin as he burst out of the water.A whole bunch of tourists went, Whoa!I managed to wave at the crowd.
My son, what you are attempting – shadow-travel across the world, carrying the statue of Athena – it may well destroy you.’ ‘Thanks for the encouragement.
My name is Carter Kane. I'm fourteen and my home is a suitcase.
My fatal flaw is hubris.The brown stuff they spread on veggie sandwiches?No, seaweed brain. That's hummus. Hubris is worse.What could be worse than hummus?
Mrs. O' Leary is my pet. I couldn't let you stick a sword in her rump, now, could I? That might've scared her.
Monkey bar, Annabeth said. I'm great at these. She leaped onto to the first rung and start swinging her way across. She was scared of tiny spiders, but not of plummeting to her death from a set of mon...
Meg, what I'm about to do - never, ever try this on your own. I felt a bit silly giving this advice to a girl who regularly fought monsters with golden swords, but I had promised Bill Nye the Science...
Maybe—just maybe—Sadie had my best interests at heart. (I just caught her making faces at me, so maybe not.)
Maybe the lesson is: Know when to brag and when to keep your mouth shut. Or: Sometimes life isn’t fair, even if you are as gifted as Athena. Or maybe: Don’t give away free tapestries.
Maybe love was no match for ice...but Piper had used it to wake a metal dragon. Mortals did superhuman feats in the name of love all the time. Mothers lifted cars to save their children. And Piper was...