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Riordan, Rick.

The lightning thief / Rick Riordan.

1st ed.

New York : Miramax Books/Hyperion Books for Children, c2005.

377 p. ; 22 cm.

After learning that he is the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea, twelve-year-old Percy is sent to a summer camp for demigods like himself, and joins his new friends on a quest to prevent a war between the gods.

Iowa Teen Award winner, 2009.

Guided reading level W.

Percy Jackson & the Olympians ; 1

Riordan, Rick. Percy Jackson & the Olympians ; 1.

Zeus (Greek deity) -- Fiction.

Mythology, Greek -- Juvenile fiction.

Mythology, Greek -- Juvenile fiction.

Camps -- Fiction.

Friendship -- Juvenile fiction

Fathers and sons -- Fiction.

Poseidon (Greek deity) -- Fiction.

Hades (Greek deity) -- Fiction.

Fantasy fiction.

I accidentally vaporize my pre-algebra teacher -- Three old ladies knit the socks of death -- Grover unexpectedly loses his pants -- My mother teaches me bullfighting -- I play pinochle with a horse -- I become supreme lord of the bathroom -- My dinner goes up in smoke -- We capture a flag -- I am offered a quest -- I ruin a perfectly good bus -- We visit the Garden Gnome Emporium -- We get advice from a poodle -- I plunge to my death -- I become a known fugitive -- God buys us cheeseburgers -- We take a zebra to Vegas -- We shop for water beds -- Annabeth does obedience school -- We find out the truth, sort of -- I battle my jerk relative -- I settle my tab -- Prophecy comes true.

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