it was 1 of my favorite and my hole family has read it and loved it could have never been better
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1)
By Rick Riordan
Book 1 of 5 in the
Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series
| Interest Level | Reading Level | Reading A-Z | ATOS | Word Count |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
Publisher: Disney-Hyperion
ISBN-13: 9780786838653
ISBN-10: 0786838655
Published on 3/21/2006
Binding: Paperback
Number of pages: 416
Book Reviews (1486)
This book is great i like the lost hero better but you need to read this seris first Rick Riordan is great
The lost hero seris is better but this really helps set the secenc for those books. Its not to hard to understand and you learn a lot about greek mythology.
do you like greek gods and monsters? well if you do this is this is the book for you! percy is not a normal kid. you figured that. in this book they face a massive amount of monsters and gods. worse, the evil titan lord is rising along with mount ohyrs. will they be able to stop them before a war of the gods becomes world war lll?
This book was really awesome and interesting and it was a great mystery! I got hooked to it! This book is also really great because....................... Well, it's so awesome I don't know what words to use!!!!!!!!!! :D ;D I definitely recommend this book!!!!!
I love all rick riordan books espially this one cause it had lots of action and it made sence it didn't go too fast.
this was the lighting bolts of lightning this is so coooooooooooooollllllllllllllllllllllllll that my cousin reads a book a day because she likes this sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much
I love the Percy Jackson Series because it is funny and has tons of adventure. If you like Greek Mythology I definitely recommend this book to you, but I would read this book if you love books.
The book was so AWESOME!!! I thought the begining was cool, same with the ending! I mean, who wouldn't like it?! So for those who didn't read it, don't judge it.... Or I WILL GET AGRO... So I mean, just read it rather than watch the movie... The movie was soooo boring. Anyway, read it NOW!!!!(wow, it's sort of like a book advertisement..than a book review...)
I started reading the Percy Jackson series because the movie really intrigued me. It was a very interesting plotline; Percy finding out he was a demigod, going to camp half-blood, and saving Olympus all fell together perfectly :).