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Percy Jackson and the Olympians · Book 2

The Sea of Monsters

by Rick Riordan

Published
1 April 2006
Pages
285
ISBN-13
9780241742754
Type
novel

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About this book

The Sea of Monsters, published in April 2006 at 285 pages, is the second entry in Percy's original quest, sending the demigod son of Poseidon further into Rick Riordan's modern-American take on Greek mythology after the events of The Lightning Thief.

Its place in Percy Jackson and the Olympians

The Sea of Monsters is book 2 in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. It follows The Lightning Thief. It is followed by The Titan's Curse. 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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