SAMMY KEYES AS A TV SHOW?????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am currently dying inside. Completely dying.
SAMMY KEYES MIGHT BECOME A TV SERIES!!!! If you have not checked out Wendelin's Post this week, do it. Right. Now.

So...do you think Bailee Madison is a good pick? There's some pictures of her. Here's an interview with her (Cause her voice matters, right?)  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws1r3ex2AEk, and her acting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9Lorhdf6yw&feature=related, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9Lorhdf6yw&feature=related. Right now she's 12, but the show wouldn't be on for a couple more years, when she's 13-15ish. Plus, they can make her clothing look all Sammy-ish.

What do you think for the other characters? I don't know a lot about Actors in Hollywood, so I have no idea. The Characters:               

Sammy:

Casey

Grams:

Hudson
Heather:
Billy!:
Marissa:
Holly:
Dot:

Lana:

Warren:

Others?

This is really short, but its because I have to go eat dinner. I'll add anything I missed later. So, if you don't have an account and can't post on WVD's post, post it here and I can post it on her's and I'll put your name with it.

I'M SO EXCITED!!!!!

Percy Jackson vs. Harry Potter

Happy New Year everyone! I've been on a Percy Jackson craze, and was looking up youtube videos, and there are LOTS of book reviews that say Harry Potter and Percy Jackson are A LOT alike. I've never read the HP series (I tried, but I got bored) and I've watched the first 4 movies a LONG time ago (again, I didn't get into them), so is it true?

Like, the main characters are one girl and two guys. That's almost every book, dude. The authors do it so there is a strong girl in there to make girls into it. I mean, is there was no girl at all...that just wouldn't be right. Period. And the hero always has a friend who's the klutz, right?

Both lead characters have black hair and green eyes. Percy has to have green eyes, come on! Son of Poseidon! As for the black hair...well, it looks cool with green eyes.

Percy and Harry don't know they're family history. If Percy knew he was related to a God, there would be NO PURPOSE for the begining of the books. AND most heroes in the Greek myths didn't know their parent was a God, look at Perseus.


Both go save the world-duh! They're Heroes!

Both have a three headed dog. technecally, JK Rowling took that from Greek mythology.

Both have a prophecy. In Greek mythology, heroes always got prophecies. The Oracle of Delphi!

Both girls are smart. Okay, in PJO, the girl HAD to be a daughter of Athena for things to work, and when you're a  child of Athena, you got to be smart, right?


Anyways, I always get so worked up about this becuase people always compare the two, and it makes me want to punch a hole in the wall, ya know?


This is what Rick has to say about it on his blog:

Did you get that from Harry Potter?

When I wrote The Lightning Thief, I knew comparisons to Harry Potter would be inevitable. After all, Harry Potter is the most successful and high-profile young adult fantasy series of all time. I love Rowling's books, and I am grateful for the impact they've had on young readers and on the revitalization of children's publishing.

And so to the question: Did the Harry Potter series influence Percy Jackson? In many ways, of course it did. I was amazed at the effect Harry Potter had in my own classroom. Something about these books struck a chord with kids. The books were humorous, adventurous, fantastical, and mysterious all at the same time. My students would read The Sorcerer's Stone fourteen times before they'd pick up another book, because they said, "Nothing else is this good." When I set out to write down the Percy Jackson story, which had started as a bedtime story for my son, I was mindful of what my students had been telling me. I wanted to write a book that would appeal to them for the same reasons that Harry Potter appealed to them.

But are some elements of Percy Jackson taken from Harry Potter? I'm always amused by comments like that, because it's not that simple. My favorite comment: One adult looked at the American cover of the book, which features a picture of Cerberus, and said, "Look, a three-headed dog. Riordan obviously stole that from Fluffy in Harry Potter." Umm . . . no. Actually, that dog is several thousand years older than Fluffy.

Many other elements of Percy Jackson are similar to Harry Potter because the novels draw from the same well of folklore and mythology. Some examples:

"Harry Potter has Platform 9 3/4; Percy Jackson has the 600th floor of the Empire State Building which leads to Mount Olympus, so this idea must've been taken from Potter." The idea of a magical gateway to another land wasn't invented in the Harry Potter series. It's as old as children's literature. Anyone remember the wardrobe into Narnia? Or the phantom tollbooth? All of these stem from mythology, and the idea of a secret entrance that led into the Underworld.

"Harry Potter has two friends, a boy and a girl. Percy Jackson has Grover and Annabeth. They must be identical." Setting aside for a moment that the characters in question have very different personalities, and Grover isn't even human . . . it's a fairly common technique in folklore and children's literature for a male protagonist to have a strong female counterpart so the story appeals to both girls and boys. Ged and Tenar from the Earthsea Trilogy. Hansel and Gretel. Theseus and Ariadne. Jason and Medea. Often there is a third companion to act as a foil for the hero. Again, this is a very old paradigm. The Harry Potter series uses it to great effect, but it by no means invented the formula.

"Percy Jackson is a regular kid who discovers he is special, and the world is really full of magic. This is just like Harry Potter." Well, sure. It's also just like the young heroes in the Greek myths.

In the second Percy Jackson book, there's a scene where Annabeth summons the Grey Sisters (who in modern times drive a New York taxi) to take Percy and her to Camp Half-Blood. This will inevitably be compared to the Knight Bus in Harry Potter. It could just as easily be linked to the pumpkin coach in Cinderella, Aladin's magic carpet, or Apollo's sun chariot. The idea of a magical form of transportation has fascinated children for centuries, and appears over and over and in different guises.

So did I get some ideas from Harry Potter? In the sense that I am working with the same patterns, toying with the same mythology, doing variations on the same centuries-old themes -- yes. But Percy Jackson is not Harry Potter, nor is Harry Potter where the ideas originated. If the Percy Jackson series accomplishes nothing else, I hope it will encourage readers to go back to the Greek myths -- one of the taproots of children's fantasy -- and discover for themselves where many of our best modern novels (including the Potter books) drew inspiration."

If you like Harry Potter better than Percy Jackson, I'm cool with that. It's just I hate it when HP fans freak out about similarities that Rick stole charcters or ideas from Rowling, when, in fact, Rowling stole ideas from REAL Greek mythology, which is the basis of the PJO series. So, of course there will be similarities. Almost all books follow a formula, a formula in which Rowling certainly did not make.

My opinion? I like Percy Jackson better. I really tried getting into Harry Potter, but it didn't interest me. I like Greek/Norse mythlogy. I'm not a fan of wizards/magic. I like light, funny books. It all comes down to voice for me. i LOVE the voice of Percy jackson, Leo Valdez and Sammy Keyes. That's why they are my two favorite books. I REALLY loved the Hunger Games too, but I didn't admire or laugh as much with Katniss, like I did with leo, Sammy or Percy. Voice is one of the most important things for me.

It's all opinion, and so, if you're going to compare and complain about  two different things, do your research and stop being a pansy.

Greeks own Romans

I have not died! Trust me!!!

I went to Prescott (in AZ) for Thanksgiving (we left that morning) and I got back a few hours ago. I love Arizona. It's amazing. It's sunny, bright, you don't get natural disasters, and it doesn't snow. Yeah, it can get hot. About 115 degrees sometimes, but it's not bad. (only in the summer, but it's usually about 110 degrees or 105) It's nice in the winter, spring and fall. You can easily cool down in the summer.

AND it is really pretty up in Prescott. It's green (at least to me) and it's cool. It was 30-50 degrees while I was there.There's a picture of the camp/one of the cabins that we were at. It was my family, and 3 others. Total of about 24 people. We all know each other though, and it was like a big reunion. The camp's called UCYC. (United Christian Youth Camp) it was deserted and we got to use upper camp :)

But anyways. I just read a PJO fanfic called "I'll tell you later" by HiddenWorldWalker. It's about the "I'll tell you laters" Percy told Frank and Hazel in SoN.

It just reminded me about how Greeks own Romans's butts!!! You heard it in SoN! Greeks still had that one empire that started with a "B" when the Roman Empire fell!!! AND during the war, Greeks only had about 40 campers and 30 hunters, about a dozen or so Satyrs against kronos (who's more powerful than Krios) and Hyperion. AND they had to protect the mortals AND there was a city in the way AND there were TONS of ways to get on the island. Romans probably had about 200 fighters, they fought Krios (Ram horn dude, remember? he sucks?) Sure, they played offense, which might be harder, but did they have to protect mortals and did they have to watch out for buildings? NOPE!!!! Greeks win. Greeks battled 2 Titans, and a thousand monster army with less then 100 people. And protected mortals and fought around big buildings and fought drakons and that Sow/Pig that NO HERO HAS EVER BEATEN!!! Romans had over 200 people fight uphill and battle krios. bang. IN YOUR FACE!!!! Even the Romans were surprised Percy beat kronos in hand-to-hand combat.

Just thought I'd share.

And who else thinks the shipping would be totally hay-wire (or whatever it's called) if it went percy with Annabeth (duh). Leo and Hazel. Frank and Piper. Leo and Reyna. Highly wrong, and probably NEVER going to happen, but it made me laugh.
I really should be writing more, but Fanfiction is calling me. I really need to get writing on fanfiction AND my essay that I haven't even started that's due Monday.

I'm writing a fic where Percy comforts Hazel about the prophecy and how she thinks she's too young. You know, because she's 13 and Percy was told he would save the world at age 12? It's only friendship though.

Oh, and I was looking at some old photos. I was really cute when I was little :). I need to make a scrapbook or something, because they're just sitting in a box. Hey, I need an Art class to graduate, and I hate art, don't like doing things in front of large amounts (or even small amounts) of people (dance,Choir, theatre) so I might just do photography.

Until next time.

DEMIGOD DIARIES!!!!!!!

Okay, who else saw Sammy Keyes and the Power of Justice Jack's cover? Looks different, huh? But i like it, and Wendelin's speech/post was really inspiring. She's been doing different artwork for the past few books..okay, she's only done different covers for 2 books. But still, i kinda like the changes, it's like a big wrap up of the series. Which is very depressing. What will i do without Sammy?

Nothing. Cuz I'll be dead.

And did anyone else hear about the DEMIGOD DIARIES!!!!!!!???????

AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was reading this fanfic, and in the author's note she asked if anyone else heard about the Demigod Diaries that was coming out. So I looked it up.

And I screamed. 

Check this out: http://www.amazon.com/Heroes-Olympus-Demigod-Diaries/dp/1423163001

I can't breathe. here's the summery if you were too lazy to click on the link:

What dangers do runaway demigods Luke and Thalia face on their way to Camp Half-Blood? Are Percy and Annabeth up to the task of rescuing stolen goods from a fire-breathing giant who doesn't take kindly to intruders? How exactly are Leo, Piper, and Jason supposed to find a runaway table, dodge a band of party-loving Maenads (who just might be a little psychotic), and stave off a massive explosion...all in one hour or less?

With his trademark wit and creativity, Rick Riordan answers these questions and more in three never-before-seen short stories that provide vital back-story to the Heroes of Olympus and Percy Jackson books. Original art, enlightening character interviews and illustrated profiles, puzzles, and a quiz add to the fun in this action-packed collection that is sure to delight legions of loyal fans.

Who else just fainted. Aren't we all wondering/hoping for some Thalia/Luke on the run time. We need answers man!!! We need some Percy/annabeth questing as a couple, right?! And Leo, piper and Jason?! How come they get to go on TWO adventures, unlike hazel, Percy and Frank? BUT ITS STILL SUPER COOL!!!!!

....What if it's a scam.... I'd cry. But it's on AMAZON! if you can't trust Amazon (the online store, NOT Kenzie and Hylla), who can you trust, right? but it also says Power of justice jack is coming out in July.... hmmmmm.



Now, I'm not sure if you already knew this, and I'm the last to know, but this is the news i just HAD to share with the world.

I love you all, and have a good night!

It's Robin Hood! It's Red Robin! No! It's RICK RIORDAN!!!!!!

Shocked.

I just saw Rick Riordan and the Son of Neptune on TV (Disney).  My sister said
"It's Rick Riordan!" I thought she said "It's Robin hood!" then I changed my mind and thought she said "It's Red Robin!" So I'm all like, "whatever" then i saw him. I screamed like a little girl and tackled her to the ground as she punched me- all out of excitement and i screamed as if I was Thalia falling off the Arch. I am still in shock. Completely shocked. Percy Jackson needs to be on TV...well it's kinda obvious it might be on Disney. the publisher is Disney Hyperion.

Just thought you'd like to know.
 It made my life.

PERCY JACKSON FOR LIFE!!!!!!

I'm completely having the PJO and SK books lined up in the front row at my wedding.

Good news: Did I tell you about how i bombed my essay on To Kill a Mockingbird? Well i did, and she said a lot of people who did had their grades drop dramatically, so I figured I had to redo it and do the extra credit (with was to use a real Greek hero or make up your own and make a myth....I was going to ask her if i could use Percy Jackson :)) But........I STILL HAVE AN 'A' IN THAT CLASS!!!!!!!! Miracle!!!!!! Just thought I'd let you know.

I am currently obsessed with Foster the People, 'Lights' by Ellie Goulding, Coldplay and Arcade Fire. Great bands!!!

I really need to work on my fanfics. :/

That's it. I gotta watch a show then go to bed so i can wake up at 5 am. *Sigh* I just wanted to let you know my crazy spaz about seeing rick on TV. That's it.

They inspire, they comfort, they teach...Books, how I love thee

I felt so smart today and yesterday. Too smart for my own good. So here's the deal, yesterday, in Spanish 1, we had a guess speaker from this museum thing come in and talk about the Day of the Dead. I was one of the few people who knew a little about it, because it was in Sammy Keyes and the Night of Skulls. So I was all like 'isn't this this Holiday in which  people come to the graves of loved ones and have picnics and talk about the person and their life? And they bring things they loved?" And I also knew about the Candy Skulls. oh yeah.

And then today and yesterday, I knew all the things about Greek and roman myths. We went over the Olympians, and I knew all of their roman names and stuff, and this dude next to me thought I was freaking amazing, which I am :) Hahaha, just kidding...well sorta. Anyways, I knew all the myths and the whole Persephone/Hades story, and it just surprised at how much no one knows about Greek myths! They didn't know how to spell Aphrodite, and they took the whole class period getting over that the gods slept with their relatives. And I wanted SO bad to correct my teacher, because she said Aphrodite was created when Kronos' essence went into the ocean, but it was URANUS's essence when kronos defeated him. Boo-ya.

And then in the Kane Chronicles, the 2nd book? i learned that the first hours when you're sleeping, it's like you're in a coma, then the last few hours it's when you have dreams.

The point here I'm trying to make is that books can teach you a LOT! Tons of random facts that will make you look sooooo smart in the future. But it doesn't only teach you random facts, it teaches you life lessons.
Like, My friend was going a little boy crazy over this one guy she really likes(she still likes him now) and I felt like I was losing her to the Dark Hole of love...and I was sitting on my bus, and thought,
Oh my flipping word! I sound like Sammy  in Sammy keyes and the Art of Deception!!!! Marissa was going boy crazy over Danny, and she didn't know what to do!So I went through the book in my mind, looking for Sammy's solution to our problem. Hudson told her to let her be fascinated, that she would come back down from Cloud 9 soon, and i felt better. She's not AS Boy crazed as she was, just a little.

There are SO many other problems I have faced, and found the answers in my books. Sammy encouraged me that I should be who I want to be, and that you don't need to wear skirts and be a flirt to be super awesome. Percy Jackson showed me that it doesn't matter how good i did on a test, or if i was the best, all that mattered was if i tried my best, I'd be the best. The best I can possibly be is enough.

Whoever says reading is just for fun and to escape the world is dead wrong.

DEAD WRONG!!!

Books teach you, inspire you, give you companionship....

If you're like me, your best friends are book characters. I AM going to to marry Leo Valdez or Billy Pratt...one day. Well, Billy has Marissa now, soooo....I might just take Leo. hahahaha. I should change my name to Mrs. Leo Valdez, huh? :)

My book characters are my best friends. i don't know what I'd do without them.

They're inspiring, sweet, they can't get in fights with me, they're funny, they're rebels against society, like me.....I really wish they were real.

Do I sound like a loser who has no friends?

Cuz i totally am.

Okay, so i have friends, but I don't like talking to them. They don't text me and ask to hang out for a reason. they know it.

Plus, I'm having friend troubles. With Julie. She likes to beat me at everything. She always compares our math scores, and when she got 39/40 on the test, and I got 38/40 on the test, and she was all like "Hahaha. I got a better score." I yelled at her. I said she needed to shut the heck up, and that I didn't need her opinion or her score to know that I did a good job, and she said she meant it as a joke, but she's been saying it for a LONG time, so i told her she had a big mouth and to shut up.

She compares us all the time. She doesn't like to give me random compliments, and instead, like to secretly insult me.

Even i have to admit my older sister, Faye, is cool. She's a jeans and tee-shirts girl, doesn't really care about doing what's "in" and has a pretty strong mind and can kinda be violent. Like, I said, she's amazing, right? ;) haha. But I'm seriously lucky to have her as a role model. I mean, she inspired me to be all those things...well, they're mostly good. Julie doesn't have a sister. She only has a brother who's a senior who's a nerd who plays video games all day and never talks to her. I honestly think she might be a little jealous this I have an sweet family. we're all close, my parents are freaking fantastic, my mom makes actual meals for the family..she doesn't get that.

haha. But I mean, who says that!!! To their best friend!!!!

I'm about to blow a gasket.

I don't even know what the means.

I wish I didn't have to have friends.

Dropping that subject, I would like to share my Sammy keyes Obsession with you. How it all started.......

*FLASHBACK*

I was at the library with my mom and my younger sister, Jo. I was looking for a book, so I went to the tween section thingy. This was about 5th/6th grade, I can't remember.

My mom showed me a book, and it was called Sammy Keyes and the Wild Things. I was reluctant, because I didn't really like new book series because they always disappointed me.

I read it, and liked it, so I went in for another. ( don't know which one)

I didn't really care about Casey then. i didn't even remember even reading about him or Billy Pratt back then.

I stopped reading for some reason, we went to the library less and less.

I started back up in 7t grade, that or I started reading the books at the end of 6th grade and never really stopped reading them...it bugs me that i don't know.

I remember reading Sisters of Mercy at the end of 7th grade and the Art of Deception too. I don't think I was too obsessed about the books then. But then Summer came. And I remember sitting in my sister, Faye's room reading Skeleton man and Moustache Mary. I was flipping out while reading them. That's when i really started liking Sammy keyes. I think the last book I read was Skeleton man. I was officially obsessed when I found SK fanfiction. Then I waited about a year or a year and a half for Wedding Crasher and then night of Skulls and now Justice Jack and then Wayward parents.

I have severe OCD!!!

*End of flashback*

Crazy right? It's always bugged me how i can't remember my Sammy Keyes journey. i cannot wait to be old and be able to look back at how crazy i was about SK and PJO. it's going to be beautiful.

So the point of this post was to say, Books inspire, not just to entertain, and whoever says else wise, I'll give him the old Sammy keyes/Annabeth Chase punch to the face.

"PERCY JACKSON!!!!!!!"

I was FLIPPING OUT today in English. Guess what we're going to be studying for the rest of the semester? MYTHOLOGY!!!! We doing, NORSE mythology, GREEK mythology, American Indian myths and Mexican myths. (Notice how Norse and Greek are all caps ;)) I CANNOT wait for the first two. Rick's starting up a series on Norse in 2015 or so, so i gotta get a head start ;) and who DOESN'T love Greek mythology. IT'S PERCY JACKSON BABY!!!!!

So, at the begining of class, we had to list all the gods, goddesses and myths we know. I was a beast. I listed all the Olympians plus their roman forms, Janus, Pomona, Nike, Hecate, Hypnos, Somnus, Nemisis, Tyche...plus, Nut, isis, Horus, set, Osiris and all that jazz....then i went through all the PJO books in my mind, and wrote all the things Percy did that another hero did. (Perseus killed Medusa, Heracles killed the Neminian lion, he cleaned out those stall things, and the golden apple watcha-ma-call it.) It, again, was quite beautiful.

But there's so much that I don't know. Like, I don't know Theseus's and Odyssey's and all there stories. i know bits and peices, but the whole thing? Nope. So I'm hoping to learn a bunch of new stuff this semester!!! :D

And I have a question: Did Heracles get named after Herc? You know, HERAcles...? lol. Just Kidding, maybe not...or is he..?

And why does Percy and Annabeth use Hercules, the roman version? Is it like how the Romans call thantos Thantos? They call him by his Greek name?

hmmmmm

OH! And when we were listing names of myth and god related stuff, we shared with the class, and this one dude sayed, "Percy Jackson" and the class is like "PERCY JACKSON!!!!!!!"

My teacher LOVES the PJO series too, and says that if you want to be an expert at Greek Mythology, read the series. That Rick Riordan knew his Greek myths amazingly.

And the reason why almost my whole class knows about PJO, is because at my old school, all the 6th graders read "PJO the Lightning Thief" for a reading assignment, and we all fell in love with it, and read the whole series.

This is when my Percy jackson Obbsession started.

It wasn't as...uh...severe as it is now.

Now, I'm a psycho maniac, and that whenever i hear/see/talk about percy jackson and flip out and start acting like a ADHD kid who's hyped up on Mountain Dew, and I'm already CRAZY when i'm on Mountain dew WITHOUT talking about PJO.

It's growing. my obbsession is GROWING!!!!!

This is my PJO story and how I got my severe Obbsession (Is there a term for that? I know In SK we say we have "OCD" which is "Obbssesive Cammy/Casey Disorder"):

I was introduced to PJO in 6th grade, and fiished the series in late may, when the last book just came out.

Once I finished the series, i was really depressed. I found fanfiction that december. Whwn I found FF.net, my obbssesion sky rocketed. I researched EVERYTHING PJO related.

I learned about the new HoO series in 8th grade (last year) read that, and am now currently obbsessing over mark of Athena.


That was actually pretty short. Sorry about that. my friend is coming over in a few mintutes for youth group, and i have to finish this.

I have a new Mark of athna prediction and I'll tell you about my SK Obbsession next post.

I gots to go!!!!

Love you lots,

Mrs. Billy Pratt