Percy Jackson and the Olympians

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Percy Jackson and the Olympians is a series containing five books: The Lightning Thief, The Sea of Monsters, The Titan’s Curse, The Battle of the Labyrinth, and The Last Olympian. The author of this series is Rick Riordan and his website is http://percyjacksonbooks.com/. The first book was also made into a movie in 2010; you can check out more information on the movie at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0814255/.  

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The series starts with twelve-year-old Percy Jackson struggling in boarding school where he can’t seem to focus on his schoolwork and keeps losing his temper. After his pre-algebra teacher turns into a monster and tries to kill him he begins to freak out and tells his mother. His mother decides that it is finally time to tell Percy the truth about himself and who his father is. She decides to take Percy to Camp Half-Blood where she believes he will be safe, but on the way they were attacked by a Minotaur and his mother was captured.

 After only a receiving minimal training, Percy finds out he is the son of Poseidon and that Zeus believes him to be the one who stole his Master Lightning Bolt.  Percy must embark on a dangerous quest with only the assistance of his two best-friends, Grover the Satyr and Annabeth daughter of Athena, in order to save both his mother and the world as they know it. 

As the series progresses we are introduced to various monsters, gods, heroes, and even some titans!

*Information from this post was gathered from http://percyjacksonbooks.com/ and google images.