The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1)
by Rick Riordan
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Author: Rick RiordanEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Published)
Published: 2005-06-14
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 384
Publisher: Miramax
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Book Review: Excellent, A New Favorite Author
Summary: 5 Stars
In our family, we cheer when a new Rick Riordan book comes out. We rush to the store and we buy it.
We heard that if we liked Harry Potter we would like this series. We liked Harry Potter. We LOVED this book. In fact, my son, age 9, thought that The Lightning Thief was better than Harry Potter.
This is a fast moving book about a young man named Percy Jackson. He has never quite fit in and never quite understood why strange things happen to him. One day though, it all becomes clear.
Percy is the son of a Greek God. He is a Hero in the truest sense of the word (a son of a God). His father is Persues and is charge of the water. Because of this, Percy also has some special abilities. He can control water, breath underwater and he is stronger in water.
While Percy is discovering his abilities, he finds his way to Camp Half Blood. The place he can learn more about who he is and practice using his new skills. He runs into other interesting characters that are similar to him. Percy also gets to battle monsters and strange beings.
My two oldest children, ages 8 and 9 at the time, loved this book. I enjoyed this book. It is true, if you like Harry Potter, this is a good book to try reading. If you like learning about Greek myths, Greek Gods and so on, this is a great book.
Well worth the money.
Enjoy.
Summary of The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1)
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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