I wasn’t aiming for the school bus, but of course I got expelled anyway. Like at my fifth-grade school, when we went to the Saratoga battlefield, I had this accident with a Revolutionary War cannon. See, bad things happen to me on field trips. At least, I hoped that for once I wouldn’t get in trouble. He also had this awesome collection of Roman armour and weapons, so he was the only teacher whose class didn’t put me to sleep. You wouldn’t think he’d be cool, but he told stories and jokes and let us play games in class. He had thinning hair and a scruffy beard and a frayed tweed jacket, which always smelled like coffee. Mr Brunner was this middle-aged guy in a motorized wheelchair. Most Yancy field trips were.īut Mr Brunner, our Latin teacher, was leading this trip, so I had hopes. I could start at any point in my short miserable life to prove it, but things really started going bad last May, when our sixth-grade class took a field trip to Manhattan – twenty-eight mental-case kids and two teachers on a yellow school bus, heading to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to look at ancient Greek and Roman stuff. Until a few months ago, I was a boarding student at Yancy Academy, a private school for troubled kids in upstate New York. And once you know that, it’s only a matter of time before they sense it too, and they’ll come for you. But if you recognize yourself in these pages – if you feel something stirring inside – stop reading immediately. I envy you for being able to believe that none of this ever happened. If you’re a normal kid, reading this because you think it’s fiction, great. Most of the time, it gets you killed in painful, nasty ways. Believe whatever lie your mom or dad told you about your birth, and try to lead a normal life.īeing a half-blood is dangerous. If you’re reading this because you think you might be one, my advice is: close this book right now. To succeed on his quest, Percy will have to do more than catch the true thief: he must come to terms with the father who abandoned him solve the riddle of the Oracle, which warns him of failure and betrayal by a friend and unravel a treachery more powerful than the gods themselves.Available for purchase at:Apple - Audiobook (Downloadable format)Audible - Audiobook (Downloadable format)audiobooks.Chapter 1: I Accidentally Vaporize My Pre-Algebra Teacher On a daring road trip from their summer camp in New York to the gates of the Underworld in Los Angeles, Percy and his friends–one a satyr and the other the demigod daughter of Athena–will face a host of enemies determined to stop them. And worse, he's angered a few of them: Zeus's master lightning bolt has been stolen, and Percy is the prime suspect.Now Percy has just ten days to find and return Zeus's stolen property, and bring peace to a warring Mount Olympus. ![]() The gods of Mount Olympus, he's coming to realize, are very much alive in the twenty-first century. But can he really be expected to stand by and watch while a bully picks on his scrawny best friend? Or not defend himself against his pre-algebra teacher when she turns into a monster and tries to kill him? Of course, no one believes Percy about the monster incident he's not even sure he believes himself.Until the Minotaur chases him to summer camp.Suddenly, mythical creatures seem to be walking straight out of the pages of Percy's Greek mythology textbook and into his life. ![]() No matter how hard he tries, he can't seem to stay out of trouble. Twelve-year-old Percy Jackson is about to be kicked out of boarding school.
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