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El Camino Academy 6th Grade

Percy Jackson and The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan - review

Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson & the Olympians)

This book is about a kid named Percy who has been in a lot of schools because he gets in to a lot of problems. In this new school everything changes when Percy goes on a trip to a place where they tell you about Greek myths and there he starts noticing weird things.

A teacher takes him to a room while the others are outside. When he was inside the room, the teacher converts into a monster and asks him for the lightning and he is confused. Then the others come and save his life and kill the other teacher. When he went out where the other kids were, he mentions the other teacher and they say they didn't know who he was talking about.

Then a mean girl starts bothering him. He gets so mad that he closes his eyes and when he opens them she is on the floor! Some of the kids say that the water pulled her to the floor of the fountain. He tells his mom later and his mom takes him to a camp, but on the way the Minotaur gets his mom and takes her. Percy enters the camp to be safe, and there he gets ready to get his mom back.

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