The Lightning Thief

Percy Jackson, 12, is about to be kicked out of the boarding school. . Again. He cannot seem to stay out of trouble, no matter how hard he tries. But can he really be expected to stand by and watch as his best friend is picked up by a bully? Or isn't she defending herself against her pre-algebra teacher when she turns into a monster trying to kill him? Of course, no one believes Percy about the monster incident; he is not even sure that he believes in himself. Until the Minotaur chases him to summer camp. Suddenly, mythical creatures seem to walk straight out of the pages of Percy's Greek mythology textbook and into his life. The gods of Mount Olympus are very much alive in the twenty-first century, he is coming to realize. And worse, he's angry with some of them: the master lightning bolt of Zeus has been stolen, and Percy is the prime suspect. Now Percy has only ten days to find and return the stolen property of Zeus and bring peace to a warring Mount Olympus. 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 on a daring road trip from their summer camp in New York to the gates of the Underworld in Los Angeles. In order to succeed in his quest, Percy will have to do more than catch the true thief: he must come to terms with the father who left him; solve the Oracle riddle, which warns him of a friend's failure and betrayal; and unravel a treachery that is more powerful than the gods themselves.... Read More