Yesterday may have seemed like a normal day to you and me. A bit rainy here in New York. The Justice Department decided not to prosecute the authors of the torture memos. Cinco de Mayo. The Mets beat the Atlanta Braves.
But if you're nine or eleven years old, yesterday was huge. A seismic event. I picked my son up from school, and when someone pulled this out of a backpack, you could have heard the screaming in Peoria:
The latest installment in Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson & The Olympians series, The Last Olympian, came out. I haven't seen the media cover it, and I'm sure the sales numbers don't support this, but it seems to me, at least with my kids and their friends and classmates, this is as big a deal as a new Harry Potter book.