The lightning thief
By: by Rick Riordan.
Series: Percy Jackson and the Olympians ;; bk. 1
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Waterville, Me
Language: eng
Subjects: Large type books.; Mythology, Greek -- Fiction.; Camps -- Fiction.; Friendship -- Fiction.; Fathers and sons -- Fiction.; Poseidon (Greek deity) -- Fiction.; Hades (Greek deity) -- Fiction.; Zeus (Greek deity) -- Fiction.; Large type books.
Genres: Fiction.
First sentence: Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood.
Description: 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.