This is the one where Zeus, God of the Sky, thinks I've stolen his lightning bolt - and making Zeus angry is a very bad idea. Now I spend my time fighting with swords, battling monsters with my friends, and generally trying to stay alive. That's when things started really going wrong. Until I accidentally vaporized my maths teacher. I was just a normal kid, going to school, playing basketball, skateboarding. I never asked to be the son of a Greek God.

The first bestselling book in Rick Riordan's phenomenally successful Percy Jackson series. The Lightning Thief: the First book in Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson series. Awards - 1998 Shamus Award for Best First PI Novel and Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original for Big Red Tequila 1999 Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original for The Widower's Two-Step 2008 Mark Twain Award for The Lightning Thief 2009 Mark Twain Award for The Sea of Monsters 2009 Rebecca Caudill Award for The Lightning Thief 2010 School Library Journal's Best Book for The Red Pyramid 2011 Children's Choice Book Awards: Author of the Year 2011 Children's Choice Book Awards: Fifth Grade to Sixth Grade Book of the Year for The Red Pyramid 2011 Wyoming Soaring Eagle Book Award for The Last Olympian 2011 Milner Award for Percy Jackson and the Olympians series 2012 Indian Paintbrush Award for The Red Pyramid 2013 Best Fiction Book for Children in Bulgaria for The Mark of Athena 2017 Stonewall Book Award for Children's literature for The Hammer of Thor Size: 8vo - over 7�' - 9�' tall.

His books have spawned related media, such as graphic novels and short story collections. 20th Century Fox has adapted the first two books of his Percy Jackson series as part of a series of films. His books have been translated into 42 languages and sold more than 30 million copies in the US. He is known for writing the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series, about a twelve-year-old boy who discovers he is a son of Poseidon. Rick Riordan (Richard Russell Riordan Jr.) is an American author. When the evidence in the case starts looking a little too perfect, when the killing doesn't stop, Tres takes on some extracurricular research into the heart of an assassin. But one thing Tres Navarre doesn't do is easy. He's the smart-mouthed Texas private eye who raked in the Edgar, Shamus, and Anthony Awards. in English literature, and a penchant for trouble. Tres Navarre has a passion for tequila, a Ph.D. L1 - An advance reading copy paperback book SIGNED by author on the first page in very good condition that has some bumped corners, wrinkling, chipping and crease, light discoloration and shelf wear.

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