num_pages: 10
description: Twelve-year-old Percy Jackson is about to be kicked out of boarding school . . . again. No matter how hard he tries, he can't seem to stay out of trouble. But can he really be expected to stand by and watch while a bully picks on his scrawny best friend? Or not defend himself against his pre-algebra teacher when she turns into a monster and tries to kill him? Of course, no one believes Percy about the monster incident; he's not even sure he believes himself.Until the Minotaur chases him to summer camp.Suddenly, mythical creatures seem to be walking straight out of the pages of Percy's Greek mythology textbook and into his life. The gods of Mount Olympus, he's coming to realize, are very much alive in the twenty-first century. And worse, he's angered a few of them: Zeus's master lightning bolt has been stolen, and Percy is the prime suspect.Now Percy has just ten days to find and return Zeus's stolen property, and bring peace to a warring Mount Olympus. On a daring road trip from their summer camp in New York to the gates of the Underworld in Los Angeles, Percy and his friends-one a satyr and the other the demigod daughter of Athena-will face a host of enemies determined to stop them. To succeed on his quest, Percy will have to do more than catch the true thief: he must come to terms with the father who abandoned him; solve the riddle of the Oracle, which warns him of failure and betrayal by a friend; and unravel a treachery more powerful than the gods themselves.
language: English
title: The Lightning Thief
titlecomplete: The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)
characters: Annabeth Chase, Luke Castellan, Hades (Greek God), Poseidon, Ares (god), Chiron, Dionysus (mythology), Percy Jackson, Zeus (god), Grover Underwood
genres: Greek Mythology, Adventure, Young Adult Fantasy, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Childrens, Mythology, Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Audiobook
ratings_count: 2791646
places: Santa Monica, California, St. Louis, Missouri, New York City, New York, Los Angeles, California, Denver, Colorado, Montauk, New York, Las Vegas, Nevada, Long Island, New York, New Jersey
series: Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Camp Half-Blood Chronicles
awards: awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Young Readers' Choice Award, awardedAt: 1293868800000
name: Books I Loved Best Yearly (BILBY) Awards
category: Older Readers, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: South Carolina Book Award
category: Junior Book Award, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Grand Canyon Reader Award
category: Tween Book, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Nene Award, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Massachusetts Children's Book Award, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Pennsylvania Young Readers' Choice Award
category: Grades 6-8, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Rhode Island Teen Book Award, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Sunshine State Young Readers Award
category: Grades 6-8, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Reader's Choice Award
category: Intermediate, awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Iowa Teen Award, awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Lincoln Award, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Oklahoma Sequoyah Award
category: YA, awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award
publisher: Listening Library