The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)
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bright
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nasty
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buckets and...
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barbed...
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stringy,
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worn down,
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peeling.
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staring at me,
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sizing me up.
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tripped
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total fool
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groaned.
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husky
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newbie!”
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scummy
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grossed out
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Her hands tightened around the pier railing.
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“Not unless they’re intentionally stocked in the woods or specially summoned by somebody on the inside.”
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sharp noses, upturned eyebrows, mischievous smiles.
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torches
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cloth trimmed
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pounded his hoof
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marble
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briefly
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wrestling?
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go easy
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snorted.
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pounded.
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Friday
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“About sixty years ago, after World War II,
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hollow, and guilty
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I snapped it like a twig.
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She probably would’ve said worse, but I smacked her between the eyes with my sword-butt and sent her stumbling backward out of the creek.
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“Poseidon,” said Chiron. “Earthshaker, Stormbringer, Father of Horses. Hail, Perseus Jackson, Son of the Sea God.”
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scowled
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“Quest…Poseidon?…Dirty
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feigned
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Heck,
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wrath.”
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And you shall fail to save what matters most, in the end.
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summoned
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“I’ve been waiting a long time for a quest, seaweed brain,”
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“If you do say so yourself,” I said. “I suppose you have a plan, wise girl?”
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“So far so good,”
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fooled
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apologize,
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cracking up.
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clamped
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purse.
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rows,