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The Lightning Thief

                           Review by: Maddie S.

This is an adventure book and I think that there is not one part where you will want to stop reading. It was very tense and the action never ends.

This book is about a twelve year old boy named Percy Jackson. It begins with Percy attending a boarding school with his best friend Grover Underwood. Percy is on probation and is worried about being kicked out of his sixth school in six years. By the end of the school year, Percy is not invited back to the school. While on vacation with his mom, his troubles continue. He and his mom are in a horrible accident, after which he ends up at a summer camp called Camp Half Blood. There he learns that the Greek gods are real and that there are people called half bloods who are half mortal and half god. At the camp, Percy is offered a quest to retrieve one of the god’s weapons that has been stolen. He takes Grover and another camper named Annabeth Chase along with him. On their quest, they travel throughout the United States fighting different mythical monsters. Will they find the stolen object and will they ever discover who the thief is?  

I think that this book is for ages 8-12 and parents. I suggest reading the book when you have a few hours of uninterrupted time. The author of this book is Rick Riordan.

This book was very, very exciting and it is very well written.  There are five books in the series Percy Jackson and the Olympians.  The Greek and Roman adventures continue in a second series, Heroes of Olympus. You can find them all in the school library.