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The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1)

Author: Riordan, Rick

Follett Number: 1148EZX
Audience: Middle School
Publisher: Disney/Hyperion, c2005, p2022
Format: 377 pages ; 20 cm.
ISBN-13: 978-1-36805-147-7
ISBN-10: 1-36805-147-2
Dewey: -Fic-
Classifications: Fiction

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Camps Fiction
Fantasy Fiction
Fathers and Sons Fiction
Friendship Fiction
Hades (Greek Deity) Fiction
Jackson, Percy (Fictitious Character) Fiction
Mythology, Greek Fiction
Poseidon (Greek Deity) Fiction
Zeus (Greek Deity) Fiction
Percy, expelled from six schools for being unable to control his temper, learns the truth from his mother that his father is the Greek god Poseidon, and is sent to Camp Half Blood where he is befriended by a satyr and the demigod daughter of Athena who join him in a journey to the Underworld to retrieve Zeus's lightning bolt and prevent a catastrophic war.

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Percy Jackson is about to be kicked out of boarding school . . . 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.

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