The Lightning Thief, by Rick Riordan, is the first book in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. After a string of odd events, 12-year old Percy Jackson discovers that he is the son of the almighty Greek god Poseidon and is sent to a camp for demigods (people who are half-human and half-god). During this time, the gods were bickering about Zeus’ missing weapon, known as the Lightning bolt, accusing each other of stealing it until they find out about Percy. He becomes the prime suspect and Zeus demands that he returns the bolt before the summer solstice or a war would break out between the gods. However, there is only one problem: he doesn’t have it…but he has an idea of who might. With the fate of the world on his shoulders, Percy and
