The lightning thief
By: Rick Riordan.
Series: Percy Jackson & the Olympians -- book 1.
Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 377
Subjects: Mythology, Greek -- Juvenile fiction; Fantasy fiction
Genres: Juvenile fiction
Description: Twelve-year-old Percy Jackson learns he is a demigod, the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea.  His mother sends him to a summer camp for demigods where he and his new friends set out on a quest to prevent a war between the gods.