Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood. I never asked to be the son of a Greek God. Percy Jackson was just a normal kid, going to school, skateboarding, the usual. Until he accidentally vaporized his maths teacher. That's when things really started going wrong. Percy's had some pretty hair-raising adventures - battling rancid-smelling minotaurs, foul-mouthed gods and deciding the fate of the entire world on his sixteenth birthday. Now, for the first time, you can discover everything there is to know about Percy Jackson in this ultimate guide to monsters, Greek gods, weapons, Camp Half-Blood and much more…

Author Biography

Rick Riordan is an award-winning writer of adult mysteries. For fifteen years he taught at middle schools in the San Francisco Bay area and in Texas. Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, Rick's first novel featuring the heroic young demigod, was the overall winner of the Red House Children's Book Award in 2006.