Quicklet on Rick Riordan's The Lightning Thief

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The Lightning Thief is a fiction book (or is it?) written by Rick Riordan.

(If you believe Percy Jackson, the hero and narrator of this book, the story is all real. But he advises you to try to read it as fiction. He wishes he had the luxury of thinking it was all pretend.)

The Lightning Thief is the first book in the Percy Jackson & The Olympians series. It centers around a young hero, Percy, who must right the wrongs of the gods. He has ten days to track ...