rick riordan percy jackson & the olympians the lightning thief

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. 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.

Rick riordan percy jackson & the olympians the lightning thief