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  • Published: 4 January 2010
  • ISBN: 9780141329994
  • Imprint: Puffin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $22.00

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief (Book 1)




From Twentieth Century Fox comes the star-studded and eagerly awaited Percy Jackson film.

Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood. I never asked to be the son of a Greek god. I was just a normal kid, going to school, playing basketball, skateboarding. The usual. Until I accidentally vaporized my maths teacher. That's when things started really going wrong. Now I spend my time fighting with swords, battling monsters with my friends and generally trying to stay alive.

This is the one where Zeus, God of the Sky, thinks I've stolen his lightning bolt - and making Zeus angry is a very bad idea . . .

  • Published: 4 January 2010
  • ISBN: 9780141329994
  • Imprint: Puffin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $22.00

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About the author

Rick Riordan

Rick Riordan is a teacher and a writer, and has won many awards for his mystery novels for adults. He says that the idea for Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief first came to him while he was teaching Greek mythology at middle school in San Francisco. But rumour has it that Camp Half Blood actually exists, and Rick spends his summers there recording the adventures of young demigods. Some believe that, to avoid a mass panic among the mortal population, he was forced to swear on the River Styx to present Percy Jackson's story as fiction. Rick lives in Texas (apart from his summers on Half Blood Hill) with his wife and two sons.

Visit the author online rickriordan.com

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Awards & recognition

BILBY Children's Choice Awards

Shortlisted  •  2011  •  Older Readers

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