The lightning thief /

Riordan, Rick.

The lightning thief / Rick Riordan. - 1st Hyperion Paperbacks ed. - New York : Disney/Hyperion Paperbacks for Children, 2006, c2005. - 377 p. ; 20 cm. - Percy Jackson & the Olympians ; bk. 1. . - Riordan, Rick. Percy Jackson & the Olympians ; bk. 1. . - Percy Jackson & the Olympians ; bk. 1. .

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.

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.

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Jackson, Percy (Fictitious character)--Juvenile fiction.
Mythology, Greek--Juvenile fiction.
Camps--Juvenile fiction.
Friendship--Juvenile fiction.
Fathers and sons--Juvenile fiction.
Poseidon (Greek deity)--Juvenile fiction.
Hades (Greek deity)--Juvenile fiction.
Zeus (Greek deity)--Juvenile fiction.


Fantasy fiction.

PZ7.R4829 / Li 2006