He returns home for summer break, where his mother surprises him with a trip to the ocean for the weekend. Poor behavior later in the school year gets Percy expelled from Yancy Academy. Brunner, Percy defeats the Fury and returns outside to find no one even remembers the other teacher. Once they are alone, she morphs into her true form of a Fury (minion of Hades) and tries to kill Percy.

One of the teachers calls Percy back into the museum to discuss the incident. Percy defends his friend by unknowingly manipulating a water fountain. During their lunch break, a bully pushes Grover around. Brunner impresses the importance of the old myths on the class, Percy in particular. Percy’s class takes a field trip to the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art to see an exhibit of ancient Greek artifacts. Yancy Academy isn’t much different, except for Grover, Percy’s only friend, and Mr. Percy struggles with both dyslexia and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), which have gotten him kicked out of school after school. The book opens with Percy at a boarding school for troubled kids. Armed with gifts from the gods and a mystifying prophesy, the three journey across the United States to confront Hades (god of the Underworld), encountering monsters from Greek mythology along the way.

Percy (son of the sea god Poseidon), Annabeth Chase (daughter of goddess of wisdom Athena), and Grover (a satyr), who form the main triad of the book, must return Zeus’s (king of the gods) stolen lightning bolt to prevent war on Mount Olympus. Narrated by the titular character, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief focuses on the trials of Percy and his fellows at Camp Half-Blood, a special camp for demigod children of the Greek gods. This guide follows the 2006 First Hyperion Paperbacks edition. Percy Jackson’s adventures began as a bedtime story for Riordan’s son, who wanted new tales of Greek myth. Before writing The Lightning Thief, Riordan taught Greek mythology at the middle-school level for several years. The Lightning Thief was adapted into a film in 2010 and is currently in production as a television special by Disney.

Percy Jackson and the Olympians spawned several spinoff series: The Heroes of Olympus, The Trials of Apollo, and the Camp Half-Blood Chronicles. The book was named School Library Journal’s Best Book of 2005, an American Library Association Notable Book (2006), and a New York Times Notable Book (2005). The books draw heavily on Greek mythology and follow Percy (Perseus) Jackson and his friends on a quest to find and return Zeus’s stolen lightning bolt. The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan, published in 2005, is the first installment in Percy Jackson and the Olympians, a five-book fantasy series for young readers.

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