which is a problem since the 'Big Three' gods have sworn an oath not to father any more kids, due to a rather ominous prophecy.Īs a result, Percy finds himself in the middle of some epic cosmic battles - he must recover Zeus' master lightning bolt before the world is thrown into chaos he must venture into the Sea of Monsters to get Grover and the Golden Fleece clash with the Titan Atlas embark on a journey into the legendary Cretan Labyrinth to save the camp and finally battles against Lord Kronos to save Olympus.

Oh yes, and he finds that he's the son of the god Poseidon. Though Percy is understandably resistant to the idea, he soon makes friends in the sharp Annabeth and the bitter Luke (and enemies with the kids from Cabin Ares). After a minotaur attack, he learns that he's at a special training camp called Camp Half-Blood intended for demi-god children, and that his best friend Grover is actually a satyr bodyguard. Percy Jackson has always been a troublemaker, but he's shocked when some truly strange things begin to happen in his life.

Rick Riordan spins a clever fast-moving adventure that mines ancient mythology and gives it a modern spin. And the 'Percy Jackson and the Olympians' series is all about a boy who discovers that he's the offspring of a god, and the other demi-god kids that he gets to know at a very, very special camp. If you know anything about Greek mythology, you'll know that their gods had a tendency to produce demigod kids by the dozen.

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