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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chantheman5 chantheman5

This book is the most interesting of it's series!

This book was Awesome! but the movie does suck. My favorite part was when he fights Ares.

The movie... was horrible,I'm sorry but they didn't even show Ares,and they made Percy take his mom... I hope the second movie is better...

I read the movie and the book! The book is mostly better than the movie. Thats what most people usually say. It's such a good book! Humans and half-bloods alike agree...

I loved this book because it's a really great series and I'm totally hooked on it.

Ann@<3 Ann@<3

I have read all the Percy Jackson books and they are AMAZING!!! The characters are hilarious and the adventures,exhilarating. Rick Riordan made another masterpiece! I absolutely LOVE THEES BOOKS!!!!!!<3

epicdude epicdude

i think it is epic i love these books and I hate arrowgril

For people who like mysteries romance and adventure you'll love this !

well, the lightining theif is really good so far. Its about this kid named percy and he is a half-blooded. A half-blooded is a person who is chased by monsters and can die very easily. Percy is going to this camp and its called half-blood camp. Ok, i don't want to say to much!

flowerpowergal flowerpowergal

i love this book because its fictional

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