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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ryan ryan

me too i don not care

kenesha kenesha

i am cute and nice so i do not care about this book

i love this book because its fictional and mythological. its really interesting and fun! its such a fun book to read! i recommend it for kids ages 10-15. ~flowerpowergal~

the book is good for people that like adventure and action. i think that this book was good for being about gods. rick riordan also has other good books about gods.

This is the most action packed, funny, and amazing book i have and will ever read. hopefully, u will enjoy it too.

i decided to read this book because it looks very interesting because it has a lot of action the picture already showed that it was very good book to read. I hope other people will read this book because when i was reading it the text made me feel excited and curious to find out what happened next.

Desmond Desmond

it was good but the Olympus heros books are better

This book was totally awesome.

Bookwormer Bookwormer

7th grader Percy Jackson has been living a normal life... by his standards, of course. His stepfather, Gabe UGLIano, is a bully to him. After Chiron hands him Riptide to defend himself against one of the Furies, his whole life transforms to one of a demigods. He is soon sent to Camp Half-Blood, where demigods go to for the summer. He meets new enemies, rivals, and friends. I give this book a 4.5 stars, as I have read the whole series.

i love the percy jackson series.THERE AWESOME!!!!!

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