The lightning thief

Percy Jackson & The Olympians

board book, 483 pages

English language

Published Aug. 8, 2005 by Thorndike Press.

ISBN:
978-0-7862-8225-8
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After learning that he is the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea, twelve-year-old Percy is sent to a summer camp for demigods like himself, and joins his new friends on a quest to prevent a war between the gods.

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This middle grade book would have been one of my absolute favorites in my youth, and I loved it now too. I love Greek mythology, and this is basically Greek mythology meets modern urban fantasy.

Perseus Jackson, short Percy, is a problem student who can never settle down anywhere. His mother lives with his detestable step-father in New York, and he gets moved from boarding school to boarding school. But one day something changes, when his math teacher turns into a Fury and tries to attack him. He eventually finds out that he is actually a demi-god, the offspring of Poseidon with his mortal mother, and that there's a whole camp full of children like him.

But war is brewing amongst the three major gods Zeus, Poseidon and Hades because Zeus' bolt was stolen, and Percy is sent on a quest with Grover the Satyr, and Athena's daughter Annabeth, to …

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Subjects

  • Large type books.
  • Mythology, Greek -- Fiction.
  • Camps -- Fiction.
  • Friendship -- Fiction.
  • Fathers and sons -- Fiction.
  • Poseidon (Greek deity) -- Fiction.
  • Hades (Greek deity) -- Fiction.
  • Zeus (Greek deity) -- Fiction.
  • Large type books.