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Rick Riordan the sea of monsters

My best friend shops for a wedding dress My nightmare started like this. I …………….( 1.stand) on a deserted …………….a) in some little beach town. It………… (2. Be) the middle of the night. A storm…………… (3. blow). Wind and rain ripped at the …….b) Trees along the sidewalk. Pink and yellow stucco buildings lined the street, their windows ………..(4 board) up. A block away, past a line of hibiscus ………..c), the ocean churned. ………..d), I thought. Though I wasn’t sure how I knew that. I…………(5 be) to Florida. Then I heard hooves clattering against the ……..e). I ……(6 turn)and ……..(7 see) my friend Grover running for his life. Yeah,I said ……….f) 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 …….g) and fake …….h)

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