THE LIGHTNING THIEF
By: Angelina
Class: Mr. Pez’s class
THE AUTHOR, THE ILLUSTRATOR, AND
HOW MANY PAGES ARE IN THE BOOK
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The author is Rick Riordan. He lives in San Antonio, Texas with his wife &
2 sons. He is also the author of Percy Jackson and the Olympians book 2
The Sea Of Monsters and novels for the popular Tres Navarre series(an
adult series).
The book has a lot of pages, but is worth reading them. It has 375pages,
22 chapters.
The cover design is by Christine Kettner and cover illustrator is John
Rocco.
PERCY JACKSON
Percy Jackson is a mischievous boy. He gets bad grades and once he
called one of his teachers an ’old sot’! He hated Nancy Bobofit
because she gets him in trouble a lot. But, some luck came because
he met Grover, his best buddy. He has not seen his mother in 6
months! When he was told that he was the son of Poseidon, Percy
said , ” Why did you not tell me?”
MAIN CHARACTERS
Some of the main characters are Annabeth, Percy’s mom, and
Grover. Annabeth ran away from home when she was 7. She met
Grover along the way so Grover led her to Camp Half-Blood. She
stayed there for about 5 years before Percy came. Percy’s mom
met Poseidon on a beach. She loved him a lot but, one day when
Poseidon went out to sea, he never came back. So, Percy’s mom,
Sally had to work at a candy shop and marry smelly Gabe. Grover
is a satyr(half man half goat) and Percy’s best and only friend. He
usually gets teased or pelted with sandwiches by Nancy Bobofit.
SETTING(S)
The Lightning Thief has many settings. The settings are Yancy
Academy, Museum, the Las Vegas hotel, the underworld, Las
Vegas, New York, the Empire State building, Camp Half-Blood,
and Percy’s house. Most of the settings are big . In the Empire
State building is really big. Percy had to go to the 600th floor to
see his dad & uncle! The Museum is where Percy got attacked by
Mrs. Dodds. Yancy Academy is Percy’s school. The Las Vegas
hotel is where Percy and his friends stayed in Las Vegas. The
Underworld is where Annabeth got a new friend and Percy & his
friends see Hades. Camp Half-Blood is where Percy stays and
makes a new friend, Annabeth. Percy’s house is where his mom
lives and Smelly Gabe lives.
PROBLEM OR CONFLICT
The problem is that Zeus’ Lightning bolt was stolen! Zeus thought
Poseidon sent someone to steal it, so he accused Percy! But Percy
did not do it, but Zeus was expecting his lightning bolt and
Poseidon is expecting an apology on the same day, the Summer
solstice! So, Percy has to go on a quest to go find who has the
bolt and get it. After he gets the bolt, he has to go to the 600th
floor of the Empire State building and return the bolt to Zeus
before it is too late! If he fails, World War III will happen!
SOLUTION
Along the way , Percy was asked to do a favor for Ares . Ares gave
him a backpack with money in it. What Percy did not know is that
the lightning bolt was in the backpack! So, he went to Hades and
said,” I think you stole the lightning bolt. I want to return it.
Return it to me and I will bring it back.” But he did not have it.
Once he told Percy, Percy did not believe it. So they went back
to check the backpack and they saw a cylinder like shape, like a
lightning bolt without color! So, they had to get to the Empire
State building, and they got there right on-time! So, he was
reunited with his mom(because she got crushed by the Minotaur)
and finished school.
MY FAVORITE PART
My favorite part is when Annabeth plays with Cerberus and finds
out that Cerberus likes red rubber balls. I like that part because
it is hilarious to think about a three-headed dog playing with a
girl smaller than an eighth of the dogs body and the dog is
playing with a red rubber ball.
WHY YOU SHOULD READ THE
BOOK!
You know why YOU should read the book!? Well, if you don’t, I’ll tell
you! This book, The Lightning Thief, is filled with action packed
parts like when Mrs.Dodds swooped down and tried to attack
Percy! So, that is why you should read The Lightning Thief.
THE RATING FOR THE BOOK!
I would give it WWWW:Wikitastic! It is such a good book and I
love a lot of action in a book, and it has exactly that, as I said for
the last slide, it is action packed!
WHERE I FOUND
PICTURES
Every picture in this slide is found at
http://www.bing.com/images?FORM=Z9FD&adlt=
strict or http://www.bing.com/. Thank for
watching!