The Lightning Thief

The Lightning Thief is the first novel in Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians sequence. Twelve-year-old Percy discovers that he is a son of Poseidon and travels across the United States with Annabeth and Grover to recover Zeus’ stolen master bolt. Monsters and divine rivalries from Greek mythology take new forms within a contemporary American setting. Percy’s informal first-person voice joins humour and surprise to a story about finding trustworthy companions and understanding an unfamiliar family inheritance. The quest establishes both the world of Camp Half-Blood and the conflicts that develop through the later books.