The Lightning Thief
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The Lightning Thief

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The first bestselling book in Rick Riordan's phenomenally successful Percy Jackson series. Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood. I never asked to be the son of a Gr... (more)
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  • asianrocks13
    I love this series its full of action comedy and all other stuff it even helps you learn about greek mythology
    • calgal186
      1 2 3 4 5 5 stars
      The Percy Jackson series It all started one afternoon on a field trip in NYC. His boarding school was visiting a museum, nothing out of the ordinary. Then, everything happened in minuets, Percy's math teacher turned into a monster, his latin teacher through him a ball point pen that turned into a full length sword, he slashed his math teacher and she bursted into gold dust. His best friend Grover tried to pretend nothing happened, but Percy could see right through him. The rest of the year had been a strange everyone else at school acted as if his old math teacher never existed. A new math teacher came out of no where and claims she had been there all year. Was everyone at school playing a joke on him or has something else going on? Once the school year ended, his Mom surprised him with a trip to the beach. They'd planned to stay for a few nights, but a freak storm blew over and all the sudden Grover showed up at there door. But Grover was different, from the waist up he look perfectly fine, but from the waist down He looked like the bottom of a sheep. Grover and Percy's mom Sally start talking in incomplete sentences and Percy has no idea what going on, but it sounded like they were in danger. They run to the car with Sally and Grover still talking in incomplete sentences. They start mumbling something about a camp. Percy still is as confused as ever. Everything else is a blur, some kind of bull man start charging at them, the car crashes and Sally and Grover yell at Percy saying "Run to the top of the hill, you will be safe there" Percy doesn't know what to do. Will he make it out alive?
      • katofallyra21
        Loved it! :)
        • this book is really good... i love the movie !!!! ps the sea of monster movie comes out in august 2013
          • best books ever
            • I read this book. It's so good and epic. It was scary to my sister. But it's not scary to me. Who thinks .this book was scary ? It is so awesome.
              • hey
                1 2 3 4 5 5 stars
                This is a great book about three teenagers that have an adventure of their lifetimes! But Rick Riordan throws more at them later on in the book series! Read it!
                • sweettart23
                  1 2 3 4 5 5 stars
                  You should really read this book. It is very funny and has a lot of action in it. My sister recommended this book to me, and if you like this book you should also read the other books written by Rick Riordian.
                  • karategal201
                    1 2 3 4 5 3 stars
                    This book is very good but you have to know a lot about Greek myths so that's why I gave it a lower score.
                    • mudwingsgirl12
                      1 2 3 4 5 5 stars
                      It taught me a lot of things about Greek Mythology, through a demigod's/ half-bloods life.

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