Rick Riordan THE LIGHTNING THIEF First Edition
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Rick Riordan THE LIGHTNING THIEF First Edition
First UK edition, first print hardback of THE LIGHTNING THIEF Percy Jackson And The Olympians, by Rick Riordan and published by Puffin Books, London, in 2005. Jacket illustration by David Wyatt.The book is in very good condition (clean red cloth boards and gold lettering on spine which has minor creasing to the top & bottom edges) with some light wear to the illustrated dust jacket, which is not price clipped (creasing to edges, slight rubbing to the bottom corners and edges). Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no inscriptions.
Rick Riordan is a teacher and a writer, and has won many awards for his mystery novels for adults. Riordan has created many successful book series. He says that the idea for Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief first came to him while he was teaching Greek mythology at middle school in San Francisco. The multi-award-winning Tres Navarre mystery series for adults follows the fast-paced adventures of an erudite Texan private eye. Riordan also helped create the children's book series The 39 Clues; he authored several of its books, including The Maze of Bones, which topped the New York Times Best Seller list on September 28, 2008. His Percy Jackson and the Olympians series features a twelve-year-old who discovers he is the modern-day son of an ancient Greek god. Following the success of Percy Jackson, Rick Riordan created The Kane Chronicles, which features a modern-day Egyptian pantheon and two new sibling protagonists. Riordan also created a sequel series to the Percy Jackson books, The Heroes of Olympus. He expanded both series simultaneously. He has completed The Kane Chronicles, a trilogy, and continues to write The Heroes of Olympus, which will have five books. Riordan plans to publish another series based on Norse mythology in 2015.
Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1: The Lightning Thief
Percy Jackson & the Olympians is a pentalogy of adventure and fantasy fiction books. the books are predominantly based on Greek mythology. All 5 books are seen from Percy's witty and sardonic point of view. More than 20 million copies of the books have been sold in more than 10 countries. As of October 28, 2011, the series has been on the New York Times best seller list for children's book series for 223 weeks. The first book is adapted to a film, Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief which received commercial success but mixed reviews. It was followed by The Titan's Curse, The Battle of the Labyrinth, and The Last Olympian as well as a new series, The Heroes of Olympus.
The series that started it all. The adventures of Percy Jackson and his demigod friends as they fight mythological monsters and the forces of the titan lord Kronos.
Twelve-year-old Percy Jackson is on the most dangerous quest of his life. With the help of a satyr and a daughter of Athena, Percy must journey across the United States to catch a thief who has stolen the original weapon of mass destruction Zeus master bolt. Along the way, he must face a host of mythological enemies determined to stop him. Most of all, he must come to terms with a father he has never known, and an Oracle that has warned him of betrayal by a friend.
374 pages.
ISBN: 0 141 38147 7
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