THAT CHAPTER'S NAMED FOR ME!
This kid who deals with Olympians is the "I" in chapter 1: "I Accidentally Vaporize My Pre-Algebra Teacher"
Percy Jackson
Pardon me while I ____ on & on, also a noun for a stingless male bee
drone
The intended recipient of a letter
the addressee
Founded at the end of Reconstruction, Nicodemus in this "Sunflower State" was the 1st Black settlement west of the Mississippi
Kansas
Provincetown & Barnstable are on this Bay State peninsula
Cape Cod
"Live and Let Die", chapter 2, is an "Interview with" this letter-perfect head honcho
M
In a traditional alliterative wedding vow, "I take you to be my husband (or wife)" to ____ & to ____ "from this day forward"
to have & to hold
4-syllable adjective meaning within the range of anticipation
foreseeable
In 1872 the Union general this D.C. HBCU was named for wrote about "the cosmopolitan character of the university"
Howard
In 1434 it supplanted Angkor Thom as the Khmer capital
Phnom Penh
Chapter 10 of "The Hound of the Baskervilles" is an "Extract from the Diary of" this man
I wish my darn phone wouldn't ____, reflexively "fix" words it thinks I've Mississippi... misspelled
autocorrect
"See" is right in the middle of this old-timey word meaning to beg or implore
beseech
This famous orator said his time as president of the failing Freedman's Bank was like being married to a corpse
Frederick Douglass
This California place is home to Piedras Blancas Light Station &, of course, Hearst Castle
San Simeon
A charming Chapter 4 is entitled "In Which" this animal "Loses a Tail and Pooh Finds One"
Eeyore
Hey, cowboy, it's time to ____ that horse, also the word for the gear you'll use to hitch it to the wagon
harness
Absolutely boiling with unexpressed anger
seething
General Sickles called these folks "Northern people, who... have settled within the Southern states since the war"
carpetbaggers
Called Stingray Harbour by James Cook in 1770, it was renamed for the abundance of new plants found there
Botany Bay
Chapter 6 of "The Wind in the Willows" is named for this character, who gets hustled away from taking a wild ride in a car
Mr. Toad
In the fall new students ____, a Latin-derived synonym for enroll or register
matriculate
Tiny pungent plant part used in the New Testament as a symbol of faith
a mustard seed
In 2023, USS Chancellorsville was renamed after this Black Civil War hero & Reconstruction-era congressman
Robert Smalls
This waterway forms about 400 miles of the border between Minnesota & North Dakota
the Red River of the North