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- you don't have to read if you remember everything in the first few chapters

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- you don't have to read if you remember everything in the first few chapters

Percy Jackson, a 13 year old boy. A boarding student at Yancy Academy, a private school for troubled kids in upstate New York.

His seventh grade class was taking a trip to Manhattan; twenty nine mental case kids and two teachers on a yellow school bus, heading to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to look at Ancient Greek and Roman stuff. It sounds like torture, most Yancy field trips were like this, but Mr. Brunner, their Latin teacher, was leading this trip, so Percy had high hopes.

Mr. Brunner was this middle-aged man in a motorized wheelchair. He was balding and had a scruffy beach and a frayed tweed jacket which always smelled of coffee. You would think he was cool but he told stories and jokes, let them play games in class. He also had this really cool collection of Roman armor and weapons, so he was the only teacher Percy whose class didn't immediately put him to sleep. Percy hoped the trip would be okay. At least, he hoped that for once he wouldn't get in trouble.

Bad things happen to Percy on field trips especially. Like at his fifth grade school, when they went to the Saratoga battlefield, he had an accident with a Revolutionary War cannon. He wasn't aiming for the school bus, but of course he got expelled anyway. And before that at his fourth grade school, they took a behind the scenes tour of the Marine World shark pool, he sort of hit the wrong lever on the catwalk and our class took an unplanned swim. You get the idea. This trip he was determined to be good.
All the way into the city he put up with Nancy Bobofit, the freckly, redheaded kleptomaniac girl, hitting his best friends Cassie and Grover in the back of the head with chunks of peanut butter and ketchup sandwich. She actually didn't manage to hit Cass once. Grover was an easy target. He was scrawny. He cried when he got frustrated. He must've been held back several grades because he was the only seventh grader with acne and the start of a wispy beard on his chin. On top of all that, he was crippled. He had a note excusing himself from PE for the rest of his life because he had some kind of muscular disease in his legs. He walked funny, like every step hurt him, but don't let that fool you. You should've seen his run when it was enchilada day in the cafeteria. But Cassie there's no reason for anyone to make fun of her, besides being friends with Grover and Percy. Percy still didn't know why she was friends with him. Nancy hated Cassie because she rejected Nancy's friend ship on one of the first days she was here. Cassie has long brown hair and green eyes. There really was absolutely nothing wrong with her besides for the fact she can be quite reckless and she struggles in school like Percy.

Anyway, Nancy Bobofit was throwing wads of sandwich that stuck in his curly brown hair, it seemed like she was missing Cassie on purpose holding on to the hope she'd magically become friends with her. Percy couldn't do anything back to her because he was already on probation. The headmaster threatened him with death by in school suspension if anything bad, embarrassing, or even mildly entertaining happened on this trip. "I'm gonna kill her" Percy mumbled.

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