{"product_id":"goddess-boot-camp-isbn-9780142416655","title":"Goddess Boot Camp","description":"Seventeen-year-old Phoebe has recently learned that she's a descendant of Nike (the goddess, not the shoe). Now, in order to learn to control her newfound - and very strong - powers, she's being forced to attend Goddess Boot Camp. The only problem is, none of the other campers is over the age of ten! It's not going to be easy to survive camp, train for the Pythian Games, and keep her romance with Griffin going strong, but goddess help her, Phoebe is determined to make it work!Tera Lynn Childs  is the author of one previous book about Phoebe and the Academy, \u003ci\u003eOh. My. Gods\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives, writes, and blogs in Houston, Texas.\u003cp\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTitle Page\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCopyright Page\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDedication\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 1\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 2\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 3\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 4\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 5\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 6\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 7\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 8\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 9\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 10\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 11\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 12\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEPILOGUE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDUTTON BOOKS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ea member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished by the Penguin Group \u003cbr\u003ePenguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, U.S.A. \u003cbr\u003ePenguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario \u003cbr\u003eM4P 2Y3, Canada (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.) \u003cbr\u003ePenguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England \u003cbr\u003ePenguin Ireland, 25 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, Ireland (a division of Penguin \u003cbr\u003eBooks Ltd) \u003cbr\u003ePenguin Group (Australia), 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria 3124, \u003cbr\u003eAustralia (a division of Pearson Australia Group Pty Ltd) \u003cbr\u003ePenguin Books India Pvt Ltd, 11 Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi \u003cbr\u003e110 017, India \u003cbr\u003ePenguin Group (NZ), 67 Apollo Drive, Rosedale, North Shore 0632, New Zealand \u003cbr\u003e(a division of Pearson New Zealand Ltd.) \u003cbr\u003ePenguin Books (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd, 24 Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank, \u003cbr\u003eJohannesburg 2196, South Africa\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePenguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCopyright © 2008 by Tera Lynn Childs\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system now known or to be invented, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who wishes to quote brief passages in connection with a review written for inclusion in a magazine, newspaper, or broadcast.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe publisher does not have any control over and does not assume any responsibility for author or third-party websites or their content.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCIP Data is available.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished in the United States by Dutton Books, \u003cbr\u003ea member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. \u003cbr\u003e345 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014  \u003cbr\u003ewww.penguin.com\/youngreaders\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eeISBN : 978-1-101-01999-3\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFor Sharie, the best sister an only child ever had\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHYDROKINESIS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSOURCE: POSEIDON\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe ability to control and move liquids. Density of liquid affects level of control. Water is the easiest liquid to manipulate because, with the exception of dramatically dry environments (i.e. Las Vegas, Sahara Desert, Australian Outback), it is always present in the surrounding air.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDYNAMOTHEOS STUDY GUIDE © Stella Petrolas\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGoddess.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn honest-to-goodness goddess.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith superpowers and everything.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOkay, so I’m just a minor, minor, \u003ci\u003eminor\u003c\/i\u003e goddess. Technically, I’m supposed to say \u003ci\u003ehematheos\u003c\/i\u003e, which means godly blood, or \u003ci\u003epart\u003c\/i\u003e god, but goddess sounds much more impressive (to the like ten people I’m allowed to tell). There’s no percentage requirement or anything—all that matters is having a god or goddess somewhere up the line, and my great-grandmother, it turns out, is Nike. The goddess; not  the shoe. That makes me a tiny leaf on a narrow branch of the massive and ancient family tree of the gods.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo I can say with only minor hesitation that I, Phoebe Castro, am a goddess. The thing is, I only learned this about myself a few months ago—when my mom married a Greek guy and transplanted me halfway around the world to the tiny island of Serfopoula.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI spent the first seventeen years of my life believing I was a perfectly normal girl from a \u003ci\u003esemi\u003c\/i\u003efunctional family with a deceased dad and a workaholic mom. Then \u003ci\u003ewham-o\u003c\/i\u003e, I find out Dad’s dead because he disobeyed some supernatural edict and got smoted to Hades and I am, in fact, part of the \u003ci\u003efully\u003c\/i\u003e dysfunctional family of Greek gods. Talk about your issues.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeing part goddess comes with some serious perks, though. Namely \u003ci\u003epowers\u003c\/i\u003e. I can pretty much do whatever I want whenever I want so long as I don’t break any of those aforementioned supernatural edicts. These include, but are not limited to: no bringing people back from the dead (not a problem because, even though I’m dying to see my dad again, I don’t actually want to \u003ci\u003edie\u003c\/i\u003e to do it. I have a lot to live for—like my fabulous boyfriend, Griffin Blake), no traveling through time in either direction, and no using your powers to succeed in the \u003ci\u003enothos\u003c\/i\u003e—the normal human—world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese seem like no big deal, right? Well, they wouldn’t be ... if I could keep my powers under control. But that is way harder than I ever imagined.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy stepdad, Damian Petrolas—part god himself—says it’s going to take time and training. Everyone else at the Academy—the ultra-private school for the descendants of Greek gods where he happens to be the headmaster—has known about their powers almost since birth. They started learning how to use them properly before they could walk. But even they sometimes have trouble keeping their powers under control, like last September when my not-yet-boyfriend Griffin accidentally knotted my Nikes together during cross-country tryouts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike I said, I’ve only \u003ci\u003eknown\u003c\/i\u003e about these powers for a few months and these things aren’t exactly easy to control. Once, I slept through my alarm and tried to zap myself to class before the bell—my first-period teacher, Ms. “Tyrant” Tyrovolas, has a zero-tolerance tardy policy—and wound up crashing a parent-headmaster conference in Damian’s office. Can you say detention?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClearly it’s going to take a while to figure this out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo I could spend more time on my powers training, Damian banned me from running more than five miles a day until school let out (last week, thank Nike!). Even my cross-country coach at the Academy, Coach Lenny, supported the reduced running time. He says I can never race in the Olympics if there’s a chance I might accidentally turn my competitors into molasses or something. Only the lure of the Olympics could convince me to cut back on running. That and the fear of accidentally getting myself smoted by the gods. Eternity in the underworld is a pretty big deterrent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll the time I used to spend on cross-country I had to spend on learning to control my powers. Not that all the extra training helped much. Countless after-school sessions and weekend lessons—with  Damian, Griffin, my friends Nicole Matios and Troy Travatas, various Academy teachers, or, on days when the Fates were feeling vengeful, my evil stepsister, Stella—and I’m still a menace. No matter how many times I close my eyes and concentrate on moving the book across the table, sensing my instructor du jour’s thoughts, or manifesting an apple from thin air, it inevitably backfires. Hideously.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSure, with Griffin’s help I figured out how to turn Stella’s hair green for Mom and Damian’s wedding, but my attempt at zapping myself some new Nikes ended very, very badly. Let’s just say I like my toes and I’m thankful every day that I have all ten of them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow it’s summer break and I still have only limited control.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI’m back to my regular running schedule, training for the Pythian Games trials, which are just two weeks away, and wondering whether my next powers screwup will be the one that lands me in Hades.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome days I wish I’d never learned the truth. Life would be so much less complicated if Mom had never met Damian. Right now, I’d be back in L.A. with Nola and Cesca, enjoying my last summer before college by spending hours on the beach. Maybe finally learning how to surf from some hottie surfer boy who would totally fall in love with Nola and—\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Phoebe!”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI shudder at the sound of Damian’s voice echoing through the house. He sounds really, really, \u003ci\u003ereally\u003c\/i\u003e upset.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Yes?” I answer as sweetly as possible from the relative safety of my bedroom. Not that walls hinder his ability to read minds—or sense fear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI watch the door nervously. I know it’s a bad sign when I see water streaming under the crack, flowing into the grout lines between each tile and pooling in the depressions of the age-worn ceramic surfaces.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Trust me,” Damian says from the other side of my door, “you do not wish to make me open this door myself.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI leap up from my desk chair and, neatly avoiding the rivulets lacing across my floor, pull open the door. “Damian, I’m—”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy mouth drops open and my apology sticks in my throat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNormally impeccably-dressed-in-a-suit-and-tie Damian is standing there wearing board shorts, Birkenstocks, and a shark’s-tooth necklace. Oh, and he’s \u003ci\u003esoaking\u003c\/i\u003e wet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Omigods, Damian,” I blurt, staring instantly at the floor—I do not need to see my stepdad’s bare chest, thank you very much. “I’m so sorry. I didn’t mean to, um . . .” I wave my hand up and down in his direction, still averting my eyes. “Sorry, sorry, sorry. I was just thinking about how much I miss L.A. and that I’ve never learned how to surf and now that school’s out I could go if I didn’t have the Pythian trials and my stupid powers weren’t—”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDamian holds up his hand and takes a deep, \u003ci\u003edeep\u003c\/i\u003e breath. He lets it out super slow, with a little bit of a growl from the back of his throat. And then he takes another. And another.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI’ve really done it this time. I mean, the palm tree in the living room had been bad enough, but he is clearly beyond furious at the moment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInstinctively I inch back a step . . . right into a growing puddle. The sloshing sound of me smacking into the water breaks his deep breathing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I am not angry with you,” he says, carefully enunciating each word. “Truly.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI’m not convinced.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe runs a hand through his wet hair, sending a fresh spray of water droplets everywhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Oh, for Hera’s sake,” he mutters. For a second I’m nearly blinded by a bright glow, and when I open my eyes again, Damian is back to his dry, fully clothed self. The puddles are still there. “Let us speak in my office, shall we?”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI hang my head and follow Damian through the house. Why do these things keep happening to me? I mean, you’d think after all these months I’d have improved a little. At least enough so that things wouldn’t go haywire when I’m just randomly thinking about completely non-powers-related stuff.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Please.” Damian gestures at a chair in front of his desk. “Have a seat.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSinking into the soft leather—hard-core-hippie Nola would have a field day with the cruel and unnecessary use of animal hide—I try to clear my mind of all thoughts. It’s thinking that gets me into trouble. If I could go the rest of my life without thinking, then—\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I know you are using your powers neither carelessly nor intentionally,” Damian says as he lowers into his chair. “But in the several months since your powers first manifested, your control has not improved. In fact”—he pinches the bridge of his nose like the idea of my uncontrolled powers gives him a headache—“it may have gotten worse.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWorse?\u003c\/i\u003e My heart sinks. I’ve been spending hours upon hours  working on controlling my powers. All right, some of those hours—okay, \u003ci\u003emany\u003c\/i\u003e of those hours—were spent with Griffin. And maybe we don’t \u003ci\u003ealways\u003c\/i\u003e spend every second on my training, but hey, a girl can’t focus on work \u003ci\u003eall\u003c\/i\u003e the time when in the presence of such a god. Can she?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I don’t blame you, Phoebe. We both know that, since you are the third generation removed from Nike, your powers are stronger than most. It is not surprising that you are having difficulty controlling them.” He smiles kindly and my stomach kind of clenches.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI don’t need pity . . . I need help.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I don’t know what else to do,” I say, trying not to whine. I am so not a whiner. “I’m sorry. I’ve been working hard. Maybe I just need a little more time.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Unfortunately,” he says, “we have little time left.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLittle time left?\u003c\/i\u003e What is that supposed to mean? No one ever said anything about a time limit. No learn-to-use-your-powers-by-summer-or-else speech. Suddenly I have an image of myself, chained to the wall in the school dungeon—not that they have one, but this is my nightmare and I can be as creative as I want—being tempted by cheesy, yummy \u003ci\u003ebougatsa\u003c\/i\u003e I’m not allowed to eat until I learn to—\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Phoebe,” Damian says, interrupting my fantasy of torture and bringing my attention back to his desk—which is, I realize with sad resignation, now covered in the cheesy pastry treat. Damian waves his hand over the \u003ci\u003ebougatsa\u003c\/i\u003e, erasing it as quickly as it came, and says, “Please, try to restrain your rampant imagination. 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