"But Mr. Brunner expected me to be as good as everybody else, despite the fact that i have _______ and attention deficit disorder and I have never made above a C- in my life."

"It's weird being alone with a teacher, especially Mrs. Dodds. Something about the way she looked at the frieze, as if she wanted to _____ it."

"She exploded into yellow powder, ____ on the spot, leaving nothing but the smell of sulfur and a dying screech and a chill of evil in the air."

"Let him enjoy his ____ while he still can."

"For a moment I thought I saw ____ in her eyes--the same fear I'd seen in Grover during the bus ride--as if my mom too felt an odd chill in the air."

"I knew I should tell my mom about the old ladies at the fruit stand, and Mrs. Dodds at the art museum, about my weird _____ that I had sliced my math teacher into dust with a sword."

"Keeping tabs on you. Making sure you were okay. But I wasn't faking being your friend," He added _____."

"Then, with an angry roar, the monster closed his fists around my mothers neck, and she _______..."

"He flailed, clawing at his chest, then began to ______---not like my mother, in a flash of golden light, but like crumbling sand, blowing away in chunks by the wind, the same way Mrs. Dodds had burst apart."

"Silence Annabeth," the man said. "He's still ______. Bring him inside."

"I ______ at the taste, because I was expecting apple juice."

"Grover was a _____. I was ready to bet that if I shaved his curly brown hair, I'd find tiny horns on his head. But I was too miserable to care that _____ existed or even minotaurs."

"God---capital G, God. That's a different matter altogether. We shan't deal with the ________."

"That's what they call him in the greek myths, isn't it?" I demanded. "The _______. Half man. Half Bull."