BOOKS BY RICK RIORDAN

1 BOOKS BY RICK RIORDANPERCY jackson AND THE OLYMPIANSThe Lightning ThiefThe Sea of MonstersThe Titan s CurseThe Battle of the LabyrinthThe Last OlympianThe Demigod FilesPercy jackson s Greek Gods, illustrated by John RoccoThe Lightning Thief: The Graphic NovelThe Sea of Monsters: The Graphic NovelThe Titan s Curse: The Graphic NovelTHE KANE CHRONICLESThe Red PyramidThe Throne of FireThe Serpent s ShadowThe Kane Chronicles Survival GuideThe Kane Chronicles Survival Guide (Interactive Version)The Red Pyramid: The Graphic NovelThe Throne of Fire: The Graphic Novel (coming October 2015!)THE HEROES OF OLYMPUSThe Lost HeroThe Son of NeptuneThe Mark of AthenaThe House of HadesThe blood of OlympusThe Demigod DiariesThe Lost Hero: The Graphic NovelThe Son of Neptune: The Graphic NovelSHORT STORIES BY RICK RIORDANThe Son of SobekA Carter Kane/Percy jackson Short StoryThe Staff of SerapisAn Annabeth Chase/Sadie Kane AdventureThe Crown of PtolemyWith Percy jackson , Annabeth Chase, Carter Kane, & Sadie KaneCopyright 2005 by Rick RiordanCover illustration 2014 by John RoccoCover design by SJI Associates, from Percy jackson and the Olympians, Book Two: The Sea of Monsters copyright 2006 byRick from Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, Book One.

2 The Sword of Summer copyright 2015 by Rick rights reserved. Published by Disney Hyperion BOOKS , an imprint of Disney Book Group. Nopart of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic ormechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system,without written permission from the publisher. For information address Disney Hyperion BOOKS , 125 West End Avenue, New York, New York 978-1-4231-3189-2 Visit PageBooks by Rick RiordanCopyrightDedication1. I Accidentally Vaporize My Pre-algebra Teacher2. Three Old Ladies Knit the Socks of Death3. Grover Unexpectedly Loses His Pants4. My Mother Teaches Me Bullfighting5.

3 I Play Pinochle with a Horse6. I Become Supreme Lord of the Bathroom7. My Dinner Goes Up in Smoke8. We Capture a Flag9. I Am Offered a Quest10. I Ruin a Perfectly Good Bus11. We Visit the Garden Gnome Emporium12. We Get Advice from a Poodle13. I Plunge to My Death14. I Become a Known Fugitive15. A God Buys Us Cheeseburgers16. We Take a Zebra to Vegas17. We Shop for Water Beds18. Annabeth Does Obedience School19. We Find Out the Truth, Sort Of20. I Battle My Jerk Relative21. I Settle My Tab22. The Prophecy Comes TrueAcknowledgmentsPreview of Percy jackson and the Olympians, Book Two: The Sea ofMonstersPreview of Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, Book One: The Sword ofSummerAbout the AuthorTo Haley, who heard the story firstONEI ACCIDENTALLY VAPORIZE MY PRE-ALGEBRATEACHERLook, I didn t want to be a you re reading this because you think you might be one, my advice is:close this book right now.

4 Believe whatever lie your mom or dad told youabout your birth, and try to lead a normal a half- blood is dangerous. It s scary. Most of the time, it gets youkilled in painful, nasty you re a normal kid, reading this because you think it s fiction, on. I envy you for being able to believe that none of this ever if you recognize yourself in these pages if you feel somethingstirring inside stop reading immediately. You might be one of us. And onceyou know that, it s only a matter of time before they sense it too, and they llcome for t say I didn t warn name is Percy m twelve years old. Until a few months ago, I was a boarding student atYancy Academy, a private school for troubled kids in upstate New I a troubled kid?

5 Yeah. You could say could start at any point in my short miserable life to prove it, but thingsreally started going bad last May, when our sixth-grade class took a field tripto Manhattan twenty-eight mental-case kids and two teachers on a yellowschool bus, heading to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to look at ancientGreek and Roman know it sounds like torture. Most Yancy field trips Mr. Brunner, our Latin teacher, was leading this trip, so I had Brunner was this middle-aged guy in a motorized wheelchair. He hadthinning hair and a scruffy beard and a frayed tweed jacket, which alwayssmelled like coffee. You wouldn t think he d be cool, but he told stories andjokes and let us play games in class.

6 He also had this awesome collection ofRoman armor and weapons, so he was the only teacher whose class didn t putme to hoped the trip would be okay. At least, I hoped that for once I wouldn tget in , was I , bad things happen to me on field trips. Like at my fifth-grade school,when we went to the Saratoga battlefield, I had this accident with aRevolutionary War cannon. I wasn t aiming for the school bus, but of courseI got expelled anyway. And before that, at my fourth-grade school, when wetook a behind-the-scenes tour of the Marine World shark pool, I sort of hit thewrong lever on the catwalk and our class took an unplanned swim. And thetime before , you get the trip, I was determined to be the way into the city, I put up with Nancy Bobofit, the freckly,redheaded kleptomaniac girl, hitting my best friend Grover in the back of thehead with chunks of peanut butter-and-ketchup was an easy target.

7 He was scrawny. He cried when he gotfrustrated. He must ve been held back several grades, because he was theonly sixth grader with acne and the start of a wispy beard on his chin. On topof all that, he was crippled. He had a note excusing him from PE for the restof his life because he had some kind of muscular disease in his legs. Hewalked funny, like every step hurt him, but don t let that fool you. Youshould ve seen him run when it was enchilada day in the , Nancy Bobofit was throwing wads of sandwich that stuck in hiscurly brown hair, and she knew I couldn t do anything back to her because Iwas already on probation. The headmaster had threatened me with death byin-school suspension if anything bad, embarrassing, or even mildlyentertaining happened on this trip.

8 I m going to kill her, I tried to calm me down. It s okay. I like peanut butter. He dodged another piece of Nancy s lunch. That s it. I started to get up, but Grover pulled me back to my seat. You re already on probation, he reminded me. You know who ll getblamed if anything happens. Looking back on it, I wish I d decked Nancy Bobofit right then and suspension would ve been nothing compared to the mess I wasabout to get myself Brunner led the museum rode up front in his wheelchair, guiding us through the big echoeygalleries, past marble statues and glass cases full of really old black-and-orange blew my mind that this stuff had survived for two thousand, threethousand gathered us around a thirteen-foot-tall stone column with a big sphinxon the top, and started telling us how it was a grave marker, a stele, for a girlabout our age.

9 He told us about the carvings on the sides. I was trying tolisten to what he had to say, because it was kind of interesting, but everybodyaround me was talking, and every time I told them to shut up, the otherteacher chaperone, Mrs. Dodds, would give me the evil Dodds was this little math teacher from Georgia who always wore ablack leather jacket, even though she was fifty years old. She looked meanenough to ride a Harley right into your locker. She had come to Yancyhalfway through the year, when our last math teacher had a her first day, Mrs. Dodds loved Nancy Bobofit and figured I wasdevil spawn. She would point her crooked finger at me and say, Now,honey, real sweet, and I knew I was going to get after-school detention for time, after she d made me erase answers out of old math workbooksuntil midnight, I told Grover I didn t think Mrs.

10 Dodds was human. Helooked at me, real serious, and said, You re absolutely right. Mr. Brunner kept talking about Greek funeral , Nancy Bobofit snickered something about the naked guy on thestele, and I turned around and said, Will you shut up? It came out louder than I meant it whole group laughed. Mr. Brunner stopped his story. Mr. jackson , he said, did you have a comment? My face was totally red. I said, No, sir. Mr. Brunner pointed to one of the pictures on the stele. Perhaps you lltell us what this picture represents? I looked at the carving, and felt a flush of relief, because I actuallyrecognized it. That s Kronos eating his kids, right? Yes, Mr. Brunner said, obviously not satisfied.