Characters in Poseidon's Prophesy

The following is a list of **characters from Poseidon's Prophesy**. They are listed under this page because of their scant history and do not qualify for their own pages.

## Characters

### Ruby

The main character and narrator of the story. She is elementary school-aged and is part of Mrs. Greenfield's class. Ruby is a demigod, though unaware of the fact, and was planned to fight a dragon at her school.

#### History

Ruby sits at her desk, taking a timed test, and hums to herself. Her teacher asks her to go to the back of the class because her humming is distracting, and she obeys. With her head drooped, Ruby sits at the scratchy table, reflecting on Mrs. Greenfield's history. She returns to working on her test but gets stuck on a difficult question. When the time is up, Ruby gives her test to her teacher, muttering a curse and trudging back to her seat. She pulls out her journal, scribbles notes, and doodles a picture of her cat, Flame. Afterward, Ruby pulls out a book and reads until it's time to go to lunch. She picks a ham-and-cheese sandwich in the cafeteria and sits by the door to get cool. Anna approaches her, calls her dorky, and pokes her in the back with a plastic fork. Ruby whips around to face her and snarls. After Anna's friends make fun of the low grade she receives on her test, she throws her Jell-O at Anna. Ruby laughs at Anna but then is chased out of the cafeteria by Anna's angry friends. She runs outside, climbs a tree, and shakes the branch until the girls give up at go inside. Ruby sighs with relief, but the branch she's holding onto breaks, lands on her back, and gets a bloody nose.

### Dragon

A dragon disguised as a snake. Ruby talks about it at the beginning of the book, thinking it was cute at first, but then calls it a "crazy dragon."

### Mrs. Greenfield

"*You are distracting the class with your humming, Ruby. I desire you to go to the horseshoe desk in the back room okay? Good.*"
―Mrs. Greenfield to Ruby *Poseidon's Prophesy*, page 1

Mrs. Greenfield is a nice African American teacher with piercing blue eyes and an earring through her nose and wears a purple dress with silver gems and "midnight-dusky" high heels.

#### History

Before moving to San Fransisco to teach Ruby's class, she was once a third-grade teacher, but she was widowed when her husband died of lung cancer. Mrs. Greenfield became uncomfortable around children, though she still picked up a teaching job. She had little money left after her move and used some of the furniture from her third-grade class in her current room.

Mrs. Greenfield gives her class a timed test. She tells Ruby to move to the horseshoe table, a short table with scratchy wood and tiny chairs, because her humming is "distracting the class." When the time runs out for the test, she rings a small, golden handbell and tells her students to turn in their papers. After she collects them all, she tells her class to read or write.

### Flame

Ruby's cat. He is a young, deaf ginger tom with blue eyes who likes to rest in his kitty bed. Ruby draws his picture after she turns in a test at school.

### Anna

"*Oh my Jell-O!*"
―Anna when she gets clobbered by Ruby's Jell-O *Poseidon's Prophesy*, page 3

Ruby's bully. She bothers her at lunch by poking her in the back with a plastic fork and calling her dorky. Then, she gossips to her friends in front of Ruby about her low grade on her test; this causes Anna and her friend group to start laughing and pointing at Ruby; infuriated, she throws Jell-O at her. Anna screams, drawing the attention of everyone in the cafeteria, who then chuckle and sneer at her.

### Anna's friends

"*So it's an F, right?*"
―Anna's friend *Poseidon's Prophesy*, page 2

Tall, big girls with fat hands and red faces who tag along with making fun of Ruby. They laugh and point at her when Anna makes a joke. When Ruby throws her Jell-O at Ruby, they snarl at her, then scream in rage and chase her out of the cafeteria. They try to climb the tree Ruby flees into but are too clumsy and trudge back inside the school.

### Cafeteria ladies

They yell at Ruby and Anna's friends when they run inside the cafeteria.