the series is way better than it sounds I've read the series 3 times! it gets better every time! I love annabeth!
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1)
By Rick Riordan
Book 1 of 5 in the
Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series
| Interest Level | Reading Level | Reading A-Z | ATOS | Word Count |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grades 5 - 8 | Grades 3 - 8 | W | 4.7 | 87223 |
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
Book Reviews (1482)
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?
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?
It was a great series! I really injoyed it! I recommend this series for kids 9-10 years old. Puppylover13
Loved it! :)
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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.
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!
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.