Percy Jackson & the Olympians

The Lightning Thief

by RICK RIORDAN

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New softcover book, published 2006, 377 pages.

The first book in the popular Olympians series featuring demigod Percy Jackson and his friends from Camp Half-Blood.

"Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood.
I never asked to be the son of a Greek God.

I was just a normal kid, going to school, playing basketball, skateboarding.
The usual.
Until, I accidentally vaporized my maths teacher.
That's when things started really going wrong.
Now I spend my time fighting with swords, battling monsters with my friends, and generally trying to stay alive.

This is the one where Zeus, God of the Sky, thinks I've stolen his lightning bolt - and making Zeus angry is a very bad idea."

Percy Jackson is about to be kicked out of boarding schoo l... again. And that’s the least of his troubles. Lately, mythological monsters and the gods of Mount Olympus seem to be walking straight out of the pages of Percy’s Greek mythology textbook and into his life. 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 and his friends have just ten days to find and return Zeus’s stolen property and bring peace to a warring Mount Olympus. But 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 betrayal by a friend; and unravel a treachery more powerful than the gods themselves.

This first installment of Rick Riordan’s best-selling series is a non-stop thrill-ride and a classic of mythic proportions.

About the author

Rick Riordan was born in San Antonio, Texas on June 5, 1964. He is the author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. He also wrote the award-winning Tres Navarre mystery series for adults and helped to edit Demigods and Monsters, a collection of essays on the topic of his Percy Jackson series. He helped develop the 10 books in The 39 Clues series, and wrote the first book in the series, The Maze of Bones.

He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin where he double-majored in English and history. For fifteen years, he taught in public and private schools in California and in San Antonio.He was awarded Saint Mary’s Hall's first Master Teacher Award in 2002.

Percy Jackson and the Olympians series features a twelve-year-old boy who discovers he is the modern-day son of an ancient Greek god. Film rights have been purchased by Twentieth Century Fox and a feature film is in development. The film is set to be released on February 12, 2010. Riordan lives in San Antonio with his wife and their two sons.

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Lightning Thief: Book 1 Percy Jackson & the Olympians by Rick Riordan