If you're a normal kid, reading this because you think it's fiction, great. Most of the time, it gets you killed in painful, nasty ways. Believe whatever lie your mom or dad told you about your birth, and try to lead a normal life.īeing a half-blood is dangerous. If you're reading this because you think you might be one, my advice is: close this book right now. I ACCIDENTALLY VAPORIZE MY PRE-ALGEBRA TEACHER This definitely looks like it could be Gladiola.1. Looks like a place fits for the gods, no? This is a painting of Aphrodite and her husband, Hephaestus god of metal work. Illustrations from Percy Jackson and the OlympiansĬheck out some illustrations of Percy and his pals.Ĭheck out this painting of the adulterous gods. Rick speaks at the National Book Festival. See who is appearing in the film version of The Lightning Thief Percy Jackson and The Olympians: The Lightning ThiefĮxplore the official site of the 2010 film. Lots of great information here about The Lightning Thief and its sequels.Ī comprehensive guide to Greek mythology in classical literature and art.Ī website dedicated to all things Ancient Greek. Sometimes being an outsider means that you have gifts that those around you don't yet fully understand or notice. It helps us understand that there is always more than one way of seeing and of making sense of the world. Whether you, like Percy, believe that the Greek gods are still around or whether you consider their stories to be mythology, this story has something to offer.
Maybe normal doesn't have it quite right after all? While being dyslexic and having attention deficit disorder means that Percy has a hard time reading books and doing well in school, it does mean that he has a gift for reading and understanding Ancient Greek and has great battle reflexes. With a slight adjustment of our perspective and of our understanding of this word, we readers realize that Percy's greatest weaknesses are his greatest strengths. Nobody (except his mom) believes he will amount to much in life.īut this story proves just how bad the definition of "normal" can be at predicting how successful someone like Percy will be or can be. His father was never around and his mother scrambles to make ends meet to support him and his rotten stepdad. He accidentally causes trouble wherever he goes, he is dyslexic, has attention deficit disorder, and has a D-average in school. Percy Jackson is the polar opposite of normal. We don't want to be "different." But, do we even know what being normal means? Who defines what is "normal"? We want to "fit in" rather than stick out. One of the most important words in the English language – almost all of us want to be it. What is The Lightning Thief About and Why Should I Care? Thank goodness, Rick Riordan took his son's advice. After hearing this story, Rick's son knew it was so great his dad needed to make it into a book. Over the course of three days, Rick came up with Percy Jackson and the story of The Lightning Thief. And when Rick Riordan ran out of stories to tell, his son asked him to invent a story about the gods. His dad knew a whole lot about the gods, you see. Every night, he asked his dad to tell him stories about the Greek gods. When his son was in the fourth grade, he studied Ancient Greek culture and stories in school. Riordan is also a dad, and he has a son who was diagnosed with dyslexia and attention deficit disorder. He taught English to middle-schoolers for years, teaching his students all about the Greek myths (ahem, the Greek stories). The Lightning Thief has even been made into a feature film. The Lightning Thief has been on the New York Times Bestseller List for children's books for over 120 weeks and counting.
The book was published on June 28, 2005, and over 1.2 million copies of the book have already been sold.
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The Lightning Thief is the first in a series of five books called Percy Jackson and the Olympians by author Rick Riordan. This is the story of how Percy finds out about his demi-god-ness and of how he saves the world from a huge and horrible war. Ancient Greek mythology is not mythology – it's the real thing. All we'll tell you is that Percy is twelve years old, he's from Queens, NY, he has dyslexia and attention deficit disorder, and he has been kicked out of six different schools over the past six years. We won't tell you what these secrets are. We want to be prepared for whatever comes our way. Our narrator, Percy Jackson, tells us on page one that this book reveals dangerous secrets. You see, we're getting ready to read The Lightning Thief, and we need to make sure we have our supplies.
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