Percy Jackson and The Olympians 2 Sea of Monsters The Rick Riordan

Jul 6, 2026

The text presents the opening of Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Sea of Monsters, beginning with Percy’s unsettling nightmare on a deserted Florida street during a violent storm. Grover, Percy’s satyr friend from sixth grade, runs terrified from an unseen monster, leading to a violent scene at a bridal boutique. The nightmare collapses into Percy waking up, hearing his mother call him, and realizing the figure at the window may have been imagination.

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CategoryStory & Novel

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Pages248

Reading Time6 h 22 min

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Copyright © 2006 by Rick Riordan All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher. For information address Hyperion Books for Children, 114 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10011-5690 . First Edition 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 This book is set in 13-point Centaur MT. Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data on file. ISBN 0-7868-5686-6 (hardcover) Reinforced binding [Visit www.hyperionbooksforchildren.com](Visit www.hyperionbooksforchildren.com) Table of Contents 1. My Best Friend Shops For A Wedding Dress 2. I Play Dodgeball With Cannibals 3. We Hail The Taxi Of Eternal Torment 4 . Tyson Plays With Fire 5. I Get A New Cabin Mate 6. Demon Pigeons Attack 7. I Accept Gifts From A Stranger 8. We Board The Princess Andromeda 9. I Have The Worst Family Reunion Ever 10. We Hitch A Ride With Dead Confederates 11. Clarisse Blows Up Everything 12. We Check In To C.c.'s Spa And Resort 13. Annabeth Tries To Swim Home 14 . We Meet The Sheep Of Doom 15. Nobody Gets The Fleece 16. I Go Down With The Ship 17. We Get A Surprise On Miami Beach 18. The Party Ponies Invade 19. The Chariot Race Ends With A Bang 20. The Fleece Works Its Magic Too Well Acknowledgments Preview Of The Red Pyramid To Patrick John Riordan, the best storyteller in the family ONE MY BEST FRIEND SHOPS FOR A WEDDING DRESS My nightmare started like this. I was standing on a deserted street in some little beach town. It was the middle of the night. A storm was blowing. Wind and rain ripped at the palm trees along the sidewalk. Pink and yellow stucco buildings lined the street, their windows boarded up. A block away, past a line of hibiscus bushes, the ocean churned. Florida, I thought. Though I wasn’t sure how I knew that. I’d never been to Florida. Then I heard hooves clattering against the pavement. I turned and saw my friend Grover running for his life . Yeah, I said hooves. Grover is a satyr. From the waist up, he looks like a typical gangly teenager with a peach-fuzz goatee and a bad case of acne . He walks with a strange limp, but unless you happen to catch him without his pants on (which I don’t recommend), you’d never know there was anything unhuman about him. Baggy jeans and fake feet hide the fact that he’s got furry hindquarters and hooves . Grover had been my best friend in sixth grade. He’d gone on this adventure with me and a girl named Annabeth to save the world, but I hadn’t seen him since last July, when he set off alone on a dangerous quest—a quest no satyr had ever returned from . Anyway, in my dream, Grover was hauling goat tail, holding his human shoes in his hands the way he does when he needs to move fast. He clopped past the little tourist shops and surfboard rental places. The wind bent the palm trees almost to the ground. Grover was terrified of something behind him. He must’ve just come from the beach. Wet sand was caked in his fur. He’d escaped from somewhere . He was trying to get away from . . . something. A bone-rattling growl cut through the storm. Behind Grover, atthe far end of the block, a shadowy figure loomed. It swatted asidea street lamp, which burst in a shower of sparks. Grover stumbled, whimpering in fear. He muttered to himself, Have to get away. Have to warn them! I couldn’t see what was chasing him, but I could hear it muttering and cursing. The ground shook as it got closer. Grover dashed around a street corner and faltered. He’d run into a deadend courtyard full of shops. No time to back up. The nearest door had been blown open by the storm. The sign above the darkened display window read: ST. AUGUSTINE BRIDAL BOUTIQUE. Grover dashed inside. He dove behind a rack of wedding dresses . The mo

FAQs

What starts Percy’s story in this excerpt?

Percy begins with a nightmare set on a deserted street in a Florida beach town during a storm.

Who is Grover in the excerpt?

Grover is Percy’s satyr friend, described as part-human and part-animal from the waist down, who runs terrified during the dream.

What happens at the bridal boutique?

Grover dives behind wedding dresses inside St. Augustine Bridal Boutique as a monster’s shadow passes and the store is struck during the chaos.

Jul 6, 2026

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