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.
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1)
By Rick Riordan
Interest Level | Reading Level | Reading A-Z | ATOS | Word Count |
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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.
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It taught me a lot of things about Greek Mythology, through a demigod's/ half-bloods life.
I LOVE THIS BOOK!
I love his books there so epic BEST SERIES EVER
I love his books there so epic BEST SERIES EVER
Loved loved loved this book. a great start to a series
I want to get that
Great Series, so far!!
FAVORITE SERIES. Wanted more of his funny, quick-paced action filled writing.
This series is great, It has action, mythology and wacky humour. All a kid asks for in a book!