Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters: The Graphic Novel (#2)

Rick Riordan, Robert Venditti (adapted by)

Where there are Gods there are Monsters. You can't tell by looking at me that my dad is Poseidon, God of the Sea. It's not easy being a half-blood these days. You mortals can't even see the monsters we have to fight all the time. So when a game of dodgeball turned into a death match against an ugly gang...

That Doesn't Mean What You Think It Means - The 150 Most Commonly Misused Words and Their Tangled Histories

Kathryn Petras; Ross Petras

An entertaining and informative guide to the most common 150 words even smart people use incorrectly, along with pithy forays into their fascinating etymologies and tangled histories of use and misuse.   Even the most erudite among us use words like apocryphal, facetious, ironic, meteorite, moot, redu...