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The lightning thief / Rick Riordan. |
| Authors: | Riordan, Rick. |
| Call number: | jLT FIC RIO |
| Publisher: | Waterville, Me. : Thorndike Press, 2006. |
| Publication date: | 2006. |
| Subject: |
Mythology, Greek -- Fiction.
Camps -- Fiction. Friendship -- Fiction. Fathers and sons -- Fiction. Poseidon (Greek deity) -- Fiction. Hades (Greek deity) -- Fiction. Zeus (Greek deity) -- Fiction. Large type books. Juvenile literature. |
| Series title: | Riordan, Rick. Percy Jackson and the Olympians ; bk. 1. |
| Title: | The lightning thief / Rick Riordan. |
| Physical description: | 483 p. (large print) ; 23 cm. |
| Contents note: | I accidentally vaporize my pre-algebra teacher -- Three old ladies knit the socks of death -- Grover unexpectedly loses his pants -- My mother teaches me bullfighting -- I play pinochle with a horse -- I become supreme lord of the bathroom -- My dinner goes up in smoke -- We capture a flag -- I am offered a quest -- I ruin a perfectly good bus -- We visit the Garden Gnome Emporium -- We get advice from a poodle -- I plunge to my death -- I become a known fugitive -- God buys us cheeseburgers -- We take a zebra to Vegas -- We shop for water beds -- Annabeth does obedience school -- We find out the truth, sort of -- I battle my jerk relative -- I settle my tab -- Prophecy comes true. |
| Notes: | "Thorndike Press large print The literacy bridge"--T.p. verso. "Recommended for young adult readers"--T.p. verso. |
| Summary note: | After learning that he is the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea, twelve-year-old Percy is sent to a summer camp for demigods like himself, and joins his new friends on a quest to prevent a war between the gods. |
| ISBN: | 0786282258 (lg. print : hc : alk. paper) 9780786282258 (lg. print : hc : alk. paper) |
| LCCN: | 2005026386 |
| Url for this record: | http://sherloc.imcpl.org/?itemid=|library/marc/dynix|1187621 |
| Bib No.: | 1187621 |