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The lightning thief  Cover Image Book Book

The lightning thief / Rick Riordan.

Riordan, Rick. (Author).

Summary:

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0786856297
  • ISBN: 0786856297
  • ISBN: 0786838655 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 9780786838653
  • ISBN: 9781368051477
  • Physical Description: 377 p. ; 22 cm.
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Hyperion Books for Children, c2005.
Subject: Mythology, Greek > Fiction.
Camps > Fiction.
Friendship > Fiction.
Fathers and sons > Fiction.
Poseidon (Greek deity) > Fiction.
Hades (Greek deity) > Fiction.
Zeus (Greek deity) > Fiction.
Genre: Fantasy fiction.

Available copies

  • 3 of 13 copies available at Kenton County.

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  • 0 current holds with 13 total copies.
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Rick Riordan, dubbed “storyteller of the gods” by Publishers Weekly, is the author of five #1 New York Times best-selling middle grade series with millions of copies sold throughout the world: Percy Jackson and the Olympians, The Heroes of Olympus, and the Trials of Apollo, based on Greek and Roman mythology; the Kane Chronicles, based on Ancient Egyptian mythology; and Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, based on Norse mythology. Rick collaborated with illustrator John Rocco on two #1 New York Times best-selling collections of Greek myths for the whole family: Percy Jackson’s Greek Gods and Percy Jackson’s Greek Heroes. Rick is also the publisher of an imprint at Disney-Hyperion, Rick Riordan Presents, dedicated to finding other authors of highly entertaining fiction based on world cultures and mythologies. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts with his wife and two sons. Follow him on Twitter at @RickRiordan.


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