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Author: Rick Riordan
Publisher: Penguin
Genre: Children’s Fiction
Released: 07 August, 2015
ISBN: 9780141360515

Percy Jackson and the Greek Heroes

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Synopsis

If you like mutilations, murders and flesh-eating farmyard animals, keep reading . . .My name is Percy Jackson. I'm a modern-day demigod – the son of Poseidon. I've had some bad experiences in my time, but the heroes I'm going to tell you about were the original old-school hard-luck cases.So get your flaming spear. Put on your lion-skin cape. Polish your shield and make sure you've got arrows in your quiver. We're going back about four thousand years to decapitate monsters, shoot a few gods in the butt, raid the Underworld and steal loot from evil people.Then, for desert, we'll die painful, tragic deaths.Ready? Sweet. Let's do this.

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.