"I put up with Nancy Bobofit, the freckly, redheaded kliptomaniac girl, hitting my best friend Grover in the back of the head with chunks of peanut butter- and-ketchup sandwich."

I think kliptomania means a clueless person.

The definition is "a persistent neurotic impulse to steal especially without economic motive."

Percy Jackson-Page 1

"My name is Percy Jackson."

Percy is twelve years old, he goes to Yancy Academy in New York. Percy is a trouble maker, he has been kicked out of a lot of schools. when he went on his field trip he saw a bunch of crazy things he slised his teacher in half and no one new who she was, but she taught them for a whole year.

The three old ladies knitting the socks of death

The three old ladies are Fates. Percy and Grover saw them at a fruit stand on the side of the road. When the lady in the middle cuts the string Percy thinks it means someone is about to die.

Fates controller the punishments of life. They determine what happens next in life. Fates are the three goddesses, Atropos, Clotho, and Lachesis. They determine the course of human life in classical mythology. Fates also mean death.

Page 45, "We hope you'd think the Kindly One was a Hallucination."

A false idea or belief

The definition is "a conception or image created by the imagination and having no objective reality."

Annabeth page 56

"Scilence Annabeth."

Annabeth is knows that Percy was coming and and she lives in a farm. She has blond curly hair also.

Satyr

A satyr is half man, half goat. Grover told Percy that when they were in the car running away from dangerous things that could hurt Percy.

Grover is a satyr. A satyr is a half man and half horse/goat. They are usually fond of Dionysian revelry.

" 'oh, you better,' Mr. D murmured. 'Before one of them incinerates you.' "

Turn into ashes and die.

Definition, "to cause to burn to ashes."

Mr. D.-Page 62

" 'That's Mr. D,' Grover murmured to me."

Mr. D is a camp directer at Camp Half-blod. Mr.D is Dionysus, the god of grape-harvest, wine, orchards, fertility, madness, parties, religious ecstasy, and theater.

Styx

Grover said Styx when he got mad.

Styx is the mythology of the river in the underworld. The goddess Styx is the creater of the river. It also means shuddering or hateful.

"Alas, he was anxious to pursue his dream."

The word Alas is used in a concerning statement.

The definition of Alas is, "used to express unhappiness, pity, or concern."

Luke-Page 84

" 'This is Luke,' Annabeth said, and her voice sounded different somehow."

Luke is Percy's camp counselor. Annabeth has a crush on Luke. Luke is a Satyr.

The underworld

The underworld is real in Percy Jackson. It is were you go after you die if you do bad things.

Hades is the ruler of the underworld. The underworld is a place of organized crimes. Spirits go to the underworld after death.

Page 97, "In the mortal world, we attract monsters."

normal

Definition, "causing or having caused death."

Page 111, "The short burst of manic energy had completely abandoned me."

fear

affected with, relating to, characterized by, or resulting from mania

Clarisse-Page 92

"Clarisse's hair was flattened across her face."

Clarisse is a very mean girl. She is the doughter of Ares.

Thalia-Page 114

"When their child was born, a little girl named Thalia... well, the River Styx is serious about promises."

Thalia is Zues's doughter. Haidez was trying to kill her because Zues, Hadies, and Poseidon made a promise that none of them would get married and have kids.

Athena

Athena is the name of one of the cabins at half blood.

Athena is a Greek god. she is the god of wisdom and warfare. Athena was also related to Zues.

Zeus

Zeus is Percy's uncle.

Zeus is the king of the gods. He is also the husband of Hera in Greek mythology. Zeus's brothers are Posiden and Hades.

Page 130, "come down, little hero, the voice crooned."

Whispered

"To sing or speak in a gentle murmuring manner."

Aricle-Page

"A green mist poured from the mummy's mouth, coiling over the floor in thick tendrils, hissing like twenty thousand snakes."

Aricle was talking to Percy in his room. There was green smoke every were and she opened her mouth and started talking. When she was talking her lips, teeth, or tongue.

Posedion

Posedion is Percy's dad.

Posedion is the God of sea and water. He is known for his trident. His trident is gold and almost looks like a fork.

"Read The Iliad."

Instructions

"A series of miseries or disastrous events or a series of exploits regarded as suitable for an epic."

Argus-Page 150

" 'This is Argus,' Chiron told me."

Argus is the body hard at Half Blood. Argus has eyes all over his body.

Cyclopes-page 154

Cyclops is a one eyed thing, known as the one eyed monster.

A cyclopes is any of a race of giants in Greek mythology. They have a single eye in the middle of their forehead. Any of a genus Cyclops of freshwater predatory copepods having a single median eye.

"Grover brayed mornfully."

Grover was probably sad.

"Causing sorrow or melancholy."

Aunty Em-Page 173

"I am Aunty Em."

Aunty Em is Medusa. She turns people into stone if they took at her face.

Medusa

Medusa is a lady that turns people into stone.

Medusa has snakes all over her head. She can turn people into stone if you look at her face. She is also Athena's sister.

"There's an Amtrak station half a mile that way."

A type of train

A type of train that goes very fast, carries people, and is used to travel in very fast time."

Gladiola-Page 195

"Percy, meet Gladiola."

Gladiola is a poodle. He was lost so Grover picked him up and brought him back to her owner.

Pan

Pan disappeared and Grover wants to get his searchers licence to try to find him.

Pan is a syter. He disappeared and a lot of syters want to find him.

"It had the head of a lion with a bold-caked mane, the body and hooves of a giant goat, and a serpent for a tail, a ten-foot-long diamondback growing right out of its shaggy behind."

A lion with a diamond back.

having marks like diamonds or lozenges on the back

Zephyr

A god from Mt. Olympus.

Any of various lightweight fabrics. Also articles of clothing.

"... an adolescent boy, ..."

immature

"Emotionally or intellectually immature"

"I finished out my last bit of change and passed Grover a quarter, which left me two nickels and one drachma from Medusa's place."

A Greek word

"Any of various ancient Greek units of weight."

Dan-Page 217

"That's right, Dan."

Dan is a news reporter. He is on channel 12 news.

Helmet of Darkness

The Helmet of Darkness is a symbol of power.

Helmet of Darkness is an item from Greek Mythology. It is also known as the Cape of Invisibility or Helmet of Hades.

Ares

Ares is a Greek God.

Ares is the Greek god of war. He is Zeus and Hera's son.

"The evil voice began to laugh. Hail, the conquering hero!"

Some one who conqered something.

To gain or acquire by force of arms; to overcome by force of arms

Eddie-Page 122

"What do you want, Eddie?"

Eddie is the truck driver of the animals. But he does not have a permit to drive animals.

Posiden creating horses

Percy can understand what the zebra and lion on the truck with him can say.

Posiden created a hoarse to daffete Athena in a battle. THe battle was over the patron deity of a city witch is Athens currently.

"We walked past gangbangers, bums, and street hawkers, who looked at us like they were trying to figure if we were worth the trouble of mugging."

People in a gang.

A member of a street gang.

"He was this annoying televangelist from upstate New York who'd raised millions of dollars for orphanages and then he got caught spending the money on stuff for his mansion, like gold-plated toilet seats, and an indoor putt-putt golf course."

A type of job

"An evangelist who conducts regularly televised religious programs."

"Annabeth, Grover, and I tried to blend into the crowd, keeping an eye out for security ghouls."

A type of ghost

"A legendary evil being that robs graves and feeds on corpses."

Crusty-Page 277

" 'I'm crusty,' he said, with a tartar-yellow smile."

Crusty works at a water bed shop. He started stretching Grover and Annabeth.

Charon-Page 285

"Charon."

Charon works the front desk to the Under World. He helped Annabeth, Grover, and Percy.

Hades-Page 309

"The room inside looked just like in my dream, except this time the throne of Hades was occupied."

Hades is a Greek God. He rules the Under World.

Orpheus

A Greek Myth.

A poet and musician in Greek mythology. He almost rescues his wife Eurydice from Hades by charming Pluto and Persephone with his lyre.

Cerberus

A doge with 3 heads.

A 3-headed dog. He is a Greek mythology that guards the entrance to Hades.

Tartarus

A part of the Under world that is for bad people.

A section of the Under World. Hades reserved it for punishment of the wicked.

"I landed behind him with a splash and feinted toward his head, as I'd done before."

Fell in faint.

Something feigned.

Zeus - 340

"To my left Zeus spoke."

Zeus is a Greek God. He is the god of sky, thunder, and lightning.

Kronos

A Greek God.

Kronos is the father of Ares. Ares sliced him into millions of tiny peaches.