Children's Book review

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief

By Rick Riordan

Published by Puffin

In this leftfield, comic, fantasy novel, 12-year-old Percy Jackson, discovers the Greek gods of Olympus alive and living in modern-day New York and that his true father is Poseidon, the Greek god of the sea.

At Half Blood Hill, a summer camp dedicated to training demigods, Percy learns that his fate is to undertake a dangerous quest across the United States to retrieve Zeus’ stolen lightning bolt and avert a War of the Gods.

Along the way Percy must face a host of mythological enemies determined to get in his way.

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Reading age: 9+
Interest level: 9+