The Heroes of Olympus, Book One The Lost Hero (new cover)

The Heroes of Olympus, Book One The Lost Hero (new cover)

By Rick Riordan

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Book 1 of 5 in the  The Heroes of Olympus Series
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Grades 5 - 8Grades 3 - 5n/a4.5127859
Jason has a problem. He doesn't remember anything before waking up on a school bus holding hands with a girl. Apparently she's his girlfriend Piper, his best friend is a kid named Leo, and they're all students in the Wilderness School, a boarding school for "bad kids." What he did to end up here, Jason has no idea-except that everything seems very wrong.

Piper has a secret. Her father has been missing for three days, and her vivid nightmares reveal that he's in terrible danger. Now her boyfriend doesn't recognize her, and when a freak storm and strange creatures attack during a school field trip, she, Jason, and Leo are whisked away to someplace called Camp Half-Blood. What is going on?

Leo has a way with tools. His new cabin at Camp Half-Blood is filled with them. Seriously, the place beats Wilderness School hands down, with its weapons training, monsters, and fine-looking girls. What's troubling is the curse everyone keeps talking about, and that a camper's gone missing. Weirdest of all, his bunkmates insist they are all-including Leo-related to a god.

Rick Riordan, the best-selling author of the Percy Jackson series, pumps up the action and suspense in The Lost Hero, the first book in The Heroes of Olympus series. Fans of demi-gods, prophesies, and quests will be left breathless--and panting in anticipation for Book Two. The accessible and dramatic cover art by graphic novelist Nilah Magruder will attract a new generation of readers.
Publisher: Disney-Hyperion
ISBN-13: 9781423113461
ISBN-10: 1423113462
Published on 4/3/2012
Binding: Paperback
Number of pages: 592

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I love the look of this book. God's are my favourite type of book. 🐨🐨🐨

This book is amazing. It puts's you into a story and engulfs you! It's like you are living in these days but also living in the greek and roman days. If you are interested in Greek and Roman mythology this is the book to read. There are heroes and monsters. It totally refers to our life of today. But also is in the life of the past.

Imagine if the greek gods were real, and were still alive today. Imagine if there were demigods, roaming the Earth, that we humans knew nothing about. Well, in The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan, you get to see what a world like that would be like; through the demigod’s points of view. In The Lost Hero, each character is facing a different conflict. Earlier in his life, Leo was tricked by the evil primordial god of the earth Gaea to use his fire powers (An attribute that is very rare for a son of Hephaestus to have) for bad. Gaea manipulated his firepower so that he burned down the mechanic shop his mom-owned, and his mom died in the fire. So now he doesn’t want to use his fire powers in fear that he will hurt someone again. Jason lost his memory, so he can’t remember anything that's happened before he woke up on a school bus. Piper is sad because she remembers that Jason and her were boyfriend and girlfriend, but none of the relationship was real, it was just a trick of the mist (the mist basically hides the gods, demigods and greek monsters from humans, although some humans have a gift to see through the mist). The setting of the book is in the USA, in modern times, and for most of the book at a camp called Camp Half-Blood; which is a camp for demigods of greek gods, which all of the main characters are. The main antagonist in the book series is Gaea. Gaea is the Greek primordial goddess of the Earth, which means she was created near the beginning of time. She has been asleep for eons but is now waking up to overthrow the gods. Basically, a lot of the enemies that the main characters face that aren’t Gaea are working for Gaea, like the giant Enceladus, who was keeping Piper's dad captive on Mount Diablo; that giant was working for Gaea. One of the most important memory moments of the book was when Jason got most of his memory back and remembered that he was a son of Jupiter, which is the roman version of Zeus, which means he is Roman and not Greek. This memory moment then makes all of the characters have the biggest aha-moment of the story that sets the scene for the next book in the series. Overall, The Lost Hero is a great book and I would recommend it to anyone who has finished the Percy Jackson series and is left with the feeling of wanting more, or, for anybody who is interested in greek mythology and a great and hard-to-put-down book.

It is a great opening to the series. Jason, Leo ,and Piper are off on a quest to save Hera. I was happy to see Annabeth Chase, Chiron and Camp Half-Blood. 😀

The lost hero is an excellent book for kids to enjoy. It is book one of the Heroes of Olympus series, and is a sequel to the Percy Jackson books.

I already finished the percy jackson series and I loved it so I have been wanting to start the Heros of Olympus.

In my opinion, I really liked this book. The story where Jace, Leo, and Piper go on a quest in the modern world to save Camp Half-Blood where all of the children of the gods go to. They need to protect it from the Greek mythology monsters who attack the gods and the camp. Another reason why is it taught me a lot of information about Greek Mythology including the gods and monsters they used to believe in. The last reason why is there are a lot of mysteries that will make you want to keep reading until you figure out what happens. My favorite part is when they battle the Greek monsters and minions who try to stop them from saving Camp Half-Blood while having to save each other from them and work together as a team to save the world from the monsters. You might like this book if you like action, Greek Mythology, Fantasy, comedy, and mystery. You should read this book because it can help you learn a lot about Greek Mythology. The story is very interesting and unique because it is a story about Greek Mythology that takes place in the modern world with all of our current technology, unlike other Greek Mythology books which just tell facts about Greek Mythology or stories in the old world about Greek Mythology.

First off the boys name was Jason. Second if you read the second book you would learn that Camp Half Blood is not the only place where children of the gods go.

I read the whole series

Lovely. It tells you about the broken romances and the new character. Keeps you reading until you finish the book!!!!!!!

I really liked this book, and am excited for book two. I think the characters are great, each main character having an individual backstory, problems, and weaknesses. I also like how all of their traits are not revealed at the beginning of the book, but rather later into the story. I would highly recommend this to anyone who is trying to find a good read.

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