Rick Riordan
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Chapter One
My Rescue Operation Goes Very Wrong
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The Friday before winter break, my mom packed me an overnight bag and a few deadly
weapons and took me to a new boarding school. We picked up my friends Annabeth and Thalia on
the way.
It was an eight-hour drive from New York to Bar Harbor, Maine. Sleet and snow pounded the
highway. Annabeth, Thalia, and I hadn't seen each other in months, but between the blizzard and
the thought of what we were about to do, we were too nervous to talk much. Except for my mom.
She talks more when she's nervous. By the time we finally got to Westover Hall, it was