The Lighting Thief

The book, The Lighting Thief, by Rick Riordan, is going to be a movie called “Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief”. It will be released on February 12, 2010. The book is about a twelve year old boy named Percy Jackson. After his pre – algebra teacher turns to a monster, he decides to go on a trip to Montauk with his mom. They meet a satyr named Grover, who tells Percy’s mom that Percy has to go to a camp. As they are driving to the camp, they are attacked by a Minotaur who grabs Percy’s mom. His mom then turns to a gold shower of light. Percy ends up killing the Minotaur by stabbing it with its horns. He wakes up in Camp Half – blood which is a place for demigods. A demigod is someone whose father or mother is a god and their other parent is a human. He is moved in the Hermes cabin where all the unclaimed demigods stay. While they all the demigods playa game of Capture the Flag, he is attacked by the children of Ares. When he steps into the river, his wounds healed. Poseidon’s green trident glows above his head. That means he is the son of Poseidon.

Once the counselors found out, he had to go on a quest to find Zeus’ bolt. Since Poseidon had broken his oath, Zeus thinks that Percy took it. As they go on their quest to find the bolt, he meets Ares, another god. Percy finds out that the bolt was in the backpack Luke, the cabin counselor, gave him. He fights and defeats Ares, who then gives Percy Hades’ Helm of Darkness, which he then gives back to Hades. Then he goes to New York to go to Olympus, which is at the top of the Empire State Building, and returns the bolt. He then goes back to the camp, where he finds Luke. Luke tells Percy that he stole the bolt for Kronos, son of Uranus, the sky, and Gaia, the earth. He then calls a scorpion who stung and nearly killed Percy. Chiron cures him and Percy leaves to go to another school.

By: Jimmy H.