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Percy Jackson and the Olympians · Book 1

The Lightning Thief

by Rick Riordan

Published
1 July 2005
Pages
384
ISBN-13
9798855113020
Type
novel

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About this book

The Lightning Thief opened Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians in July 2005, a 384-page debut that preceded The Sea of Monsters the following year.

Its place in Percy Jackson and the Olympians

The Lightning Thief is book 1 in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. It is followed by The Sea of Monsters. See the full Percy Jackson and the Olympians reading order.

Percy Jackson is a twelve-year-old New Yorker with dyslexia, ADHD and a talent for getting expelled — until a math teacher turns into a monster and his world stops making sense. Percy learns he is a demigod: the son of Poseidon, one of the Greek gods still very much alive and running their affairs from a hidden Olympus above the Empire State Building. Shipped off to Camp Half-Blood, the only safe place for children like him, Percy is promptly accused of stealing Zeus's master lightning bolt and sent on a…

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