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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danieeeeel danieeeeel

read this book and finish the series andiaavggggood

This series is my favorite series, I read all the books and this book is a good beggining. I love the greek mythology like. ex. echinda,medusa,furies,gods.

I decided to read this book with my class because i thought it would be fun. I asked my teacher and she said it would nice.My teacher told the principal and the principal said that the hole eighth grade should read it . My class is in chapter eleven. I love this book

Wait till the end, Girlfriend!

Great use of Greek Mytholgy! Brilliant books ( better books than movies ) Love it love it love it! Please try to read it even if your not into Mythlogy, You'll fall in love. Also it's hilarious!!

this book is a great way to start a series

i also read the series

I can't even put into words how much this book means to me. I don't even remember how long ago I read it, but I read it with the old cover, the one with the white background and monsters and stuff. I was just a little girl, minding my own business, when this amazingly awesome book sneaks up on me, all, "Read me, read me!" What was I supposed to do? I read it. It took me away from my own crazy-yet-somehow-still-boring-type life, and let me explore Percy's let's-try-really-hard-not-to-killed-by-monsters-type life. Read this book, you'll love it, I promise. But if you're a demigod . . . be warned.

landons-03 landons-03

i love the percy jackson series but i havent read the battle of the labrynth and the last olympian but i am getting all the series

The book is awesome and cool.I love Percy.

KJ KJ

I LOVE Percy!!!!!!!!!! The books are amazing, and Annabeth is just like me!!!!!

Jason Jason

This book is awesome

You share the name "Jason" with one of the later characters in the book.

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