Rick Riordan
Disney-Hyperion, 2005
Pages: 384
Reading level: 9-12
Genre: Fantasy
Percy Jackson is a twelve year old boy who has always had a hard time in school. He has dyslexia and ADHD, and has never managed to make it a full year without being expelled. Weird things always seem to happen to him. One day when his class is on a field trip, one of his teachers turns into a monster and tries to kill him. Then afterwards, no one can seem to remember that it happened. Then Percy goes on a trip with his mother, and it is then that his best friend Grover tells percy that he is a demi-god, which is half god half human, and that grover himself is a saryter. They need to get to camp half-blood, but on their way they are attacked by a minotaur who grabs Percy's mother who dissolves into golden light. Percy gets away and makes it to camp. He is placed into another God's cabin, Hermes, because he doesn't know which god is his father. During a game of capture the flag, he steps into a river and a trident appears above him. It turns out that his father, Posiden, had broken an ancient oath to not have any half-blood children. Percy is given a quest to go and find the master bolt, which is Zues' main weapon. While he is on the quest he is set up. Another god, Ares, makes it look like Percy has stolen the bolt by putting it in Percy's backpack, plus Hades thinks Percy has his Helm of Darkness, which Ares has. Percy, who was in the underworld looking for his mothe, is forced to flee from Hades wrath. He finds Ares and fights him to get the Helm. He wins and returns the Helm to Hades. He then takes the Bolt to Zeus and learns that his mother is still alive. When he gets back to camp, Luke, a boy from Hermes who befriended Percy, admits that it was he who stole the Bolt for a bad titan named Kronos, and told Percy that he had gotten in the way. Luke called up a scorpion to sting Percy and kill him. Percy almost died, but Chiron, the leader of the camp, saved him. Then Percy went home to his mother until next summer.
I would recommend this book to children who feel as if they don't belong.
Problems: I'm afraid that this book would condone fighting among children.
My reaction: I absolutely LOVED this book. It is fantastic!
My rating: *****
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