Percy Jackson and The Olympians: The Battle of the Labyrinth

Dear (Your name here),
               I've gotten to the end of the 4th chapter in my book, and it's quite exiting! A quote that describes the section might be on page 46: "Grover's in trouble. There's only one way we can figure to help him. It's the Labyrinth."  So who is the "protagonist"? What describes him, physical and personality-wise? Here is my answer:

• p22  "Practicing (swordplay) always calms me down."

Percy likes to be active and fight and be in the center of action.

• p22 "I've seen some pretty big hell-hounds!"

Percy has had many close calls with death, and some crazy things happen to him; he's experienced.

• p32 "I'm not exactly what you would call neat."

Percy doesen't care much what other people think about his flaws or about the little issues and jobs in life.

• p37 "You can blame my ADHD. I tend to just blurt things out."

Percy acts and talks quickly, even when it's not a good thing!

Those are just a few details about the story's hero, Percy Jackson.

                  Yours Truly,
                                      April on a Journey

Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Battle of the Labyrinth

Dear (Your Name Here),
         I just started reading a new book that I checked out of the Ampang Library. It's called The Battle of the Labyrinth and it's the next novel in the "Percy Jackson and the Olympians" series. Here is some background information on the book:

• Percy Jackson's father is the Greek god Poseidon, and his mother is a human, making him a half-blood, with special powers designed to fight monsters.
• Percy's best friends are Grover, a satyr and Annabeth, a half-blood like himself. They both attend Camp Half-Blood over the summers with Percy.
• The evil destroyed titan, Kronos, father of the Big Three (Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades), is slowly reforming with the help of a Half-Blood-Turned-Bad, Luke, and other bad monster guys.

So I just finished the first chapter, and I like it a lot. Here's my summary of Chapter one, A.K.A., "I Battle the Cheerleading Squad"
            It's was the freshman orientation for the new school the Percy hoped to go to. His mother's boyfriend, Paul Blofis, was an English teacher at the expensive, high-end building. Percy had been kicked out of school after school, so he hoped, for his mom's sake, that he would not destroy anything. Unexpectedly, Percy ran into a mortal girl whose life he saved at Hoover Dam the past summer. Apparently, she could see past The Mist, which veils most mortals from seeing monsters in their midst. Rachel Elizabeth Dare wanted to know more about the monsters she saw (others had told her she was crazy), and Percy gave her a brief description-before they were interrupted. A  pair of gorgeous cheerleaders blocked their path, and, when they turned out to be  vampire-esk-empousi, a fight raged in the music room. Percy left the saxophones destroyed as he ran away from the wreck he had created, bumping into yet another familiar face. Annabeth was waiting outside the school to go on a "No, Mom, it's not a date, just because were going to the movies alone together" with Percy. They both concluded that they should leave immediately to Camp-Half-Blood.


 A quote that discribes the story so far is, "'Percy?' Paul Blofis looked completely stunned, staring at me from across the fire. 'What have you done?'"

I think that quote describes Percy's journey so far because it shows you that Percy's life is difficult, human people don't understand him, and he tends to destroy things.

                       Yours Truly,
                                              April on a journey