The kids camp out in the woods that night, and Percy and Grover stay up late so that Grover can tell him the story of Pan.  And also so that we can get a hamfisted message about how awesome nature is compared to icky, stinky cities and such.  Because nothing good has ever come from…

In a way, it’s nice to know there are Greek gods out there, because you have somebody to blame when things go wrong. For instance, when you’re walking away from a bus that’s just been attacked by monster hags and blown up by lightning, and it’s raining on top of everything else, most people might…

The camp store loaned me one hundred dollars in mortal money and twenty golden drachmas. Huh, apparently dollar bills are alive and can die.  Learn something new every day. Chiron said the coins might come in handy for non-mortal transactions—whatever that meant. Yeah, I’m with Percy. I know what they’re trying to say.  This is…

Percy moves out of Cabin 11 and into Cabin 3, where he is master of his own schedule and has plenty of space and can do whatever he wants.  But he hates it, because “I’d been separated out as if I had some rare disease.”  Really?  Are you just going to complain about everything now? …

The next few days I settled into a routine that felt almost normal, if you don’t count the fact that I was getting lessons from satyrs, nymphs, and a centaur. …  No, Percy, that’s kind of a big deal.  The way you phrased it there makes it sound like you’re learning how to make macaroni…