The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1)

The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1)

By Rick Riordan

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Grades 5 - 8Grades 3 - 8W4.787223

Twelve-year-old Percy Jackson is about to be kicked out of boarding school... again. No matter how hard he tries, he can't seem to stay out of trouble. But can he really be expected to stand by and watch while a bully picks on his scrawny best friend? Or not defend himself against his pre-algebra teacher when she turns into a monster and tries to kill him? Of course, no one believes Percy about the monster incident; he's not even sure he believes himself. Until the Minotaur chases him to summer camp. Suddenly, mythical creatures seem to be walking straight out of the pages of Percy's Greek mythology textbook and into his life. The gods of Mount Olympus, he's coming to realize, are very much alive in the twenty-first century. And worse, he's angered a few of them: Zeus's master lightning bolt has been stolen, and Percy is the prime suspect. Now Percy has just ten days to find and return Zeus's stolen property, and bring peace to a warring Mount Olympus. On a daring road trip from their summer camp in New York to the gates of the Underworld in Los Angeles, Percy and his friends -- one a satyr and the other the demigod daughter of Athena -- will face a host of enemies determined to stop them. To succeed on his quest, Percy will have to do more than catch the true thief: he must come to terms with the father who abandoned him; solve the riddle of the Oracle, which warns him of failure and betrayal by a friend; and unravel a treachery more powerful than the gods themselves.

Publisher: Disney-Hyperion
ISBN-13: 9780786838653
ISBN-10: 0786838655
Published on 3/21/2006
Binding: Paperback
Number of pages: 416

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CoopDaMan CoopDaMan

Woo! Lucky 38! Loved this series, wish I had money to buy next hero of Olympus. 😔

The whole series is amazing

This seires is AWESOME!!!

caroline caroline

This book kept me on the edge of my seat the WHOLE time! It is an awesome adventure!

OMG this is the most wonderful thing i have ever read

Zoe S. Zoe S.

I love the whole series right now I'm on the last book personally I love the author

I am now reading this book and it's super cool! I like this book because the Olympions come out (Zeus, Poseidon, Haidas, Athena, Hermas and the other Olympions.) And Percy gets into big trouble. Maybe our classmates should try to read this book. I wish that I quickly know who was the The Lightening Theif. Maybe Half-Blooded, or maybe the gods. I love this book!

I love this book!s master bolt.

Wow. Just WOW. This book was great because it has great word choice. Also it is action-packed and hilarious!!! I don't like it as much as the other Percy Jackson books. It is about Percy Jackson going on a adventure to find whoever stole Zeus's lightning and retrieve it. If he doesn't get it by the winter solstice, then there will be a war of the gods.I suggest this book to everyone that I know!!!

In Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson series there is humor, action, and adventure packed into five books. I loved every second of this one.

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