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The Lightning Thief is a 2005 fantasy-adventure novel based on Greek mythology, the first young adult novel written by Rick Riordan. It is the first novel in the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series, which charts the adventures of a modern-day twelve-year-old Percy Jackson as he discovers he is a demigod, the son of a mortal woman and the Greek god Poseidon. Percy and his friends go on a quest to prevent an apocalyptic war between the Greek gods Zeus, Poseidon and Hades.
Riordan finished writing his manuscript in 1994. The Lightning Thief was accepted by Bantam Books in 1997 and later sold in an auction to Miramax Books before being released on July- 28, 2005. The book has sold over 1.2 million copies in the subsequent four years, appearing on The New York Times children's Best Seller list and being listed as one of the Young Adult Library Services Association's Best Books for Young Adults, among other awards. It was adapted into a film named Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief which was released in the United States on February 12, 2010. The sequel to this novel is The Sea of Monsters. The Lightning Thief has sold over 275,000 copies in both paperback and hardcover formats.[5]
Development for both The Lightning Thief and the Percy Jackson series began when Riordan began making stories for his son Haley who had been diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia. His son had been studying Greek mythology in second grade and asked that his father come up with bedtime stories based on Greek myths. Riordan had been a Greek mythology teacher in middle school for many years and was able to remember enough stories to please his son. Soon Riordan ran out of myths and his son requested that Riordan make new ones using the characters from Greek myths while adding some new ones. Riordan created the fictional character Percy Jackson and made the story of how he would travel across the United States to recover Zeus's lightning bolt. After Riordan finished telling the story his son asked that his dad write a book based on Percy's adventures.[7]
I recently read Percy Jackson and the Olympians- The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan. Perseus Jackson is the protagonist in this story. He is a very smart teenager but has trouble focusing for one reason. This reason is because he is a half-blood or also known as a demi god. Percy is the son of Poseidon, the Greek god of the ocean. The plot of the story is that when Zeus's lightning bolt gets stolen...
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