Chapter Analysis:
1. I Accidentally Vaporize my Pre-Algebra Teacher
Pages 1 - 15
Characters: Percy, Grover, Mr. Brunner, Mrs. Dodds, Nancy Bobofit, and other students.
Summary: Percy is finishing the year at his boarding school. He and the rest of the class are going on a field trip to a Museum. He gets in trouble because of the school bully, Nancy Bobofit, and one of the teacher chaperons, Mrs. Dodds, calls him inside the museum alone. When finally inside Mrs. Dodds turns into an "old hag with leather bat wings, yellow talons and fangs. Percy seems to be outnumbered but then his Latin teacher, Mr. Brunner, throws him a pen, which transforms to a sword, to fight. Percy slashes at Mrs. Dodds and eventually vaporizes her. But that's not the weirdest part; when he goes back outside nobody seems to know a Mrs. Dodds.
Excerpt:
-->She (Ms. Dodds) would point her crooked finger at me and say, " Now, honey," real sweet, and I knew I was going to get after school detention for a month.
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