The Lightning Thief Rick Riordan; Robert Venditti; Attila Futaki (Illustrator); Jose Villarrubia (Illustrator)

The Lightning Thief

Author: Rick Riordan, Robert Venditti, Attila Futaki (Illustrator) and Jose Villarrubia (Illustrator)

Publisher: Hyperion Press

Publication Date: 12 October, 2010

ISBN: 9781423117100

Pages: 128

Subjects: Juvenile fiction

Available as: Trade Cloth, 978-1-4231-2170-1 Other, 978-1-4231-3589-0 Trade Cloth, 978-0-7569-6603-4 Trade Cloth, 978-0-7862-8225-8 Trade Cloth, 978-0-7868-5629-9 Trade Paper, 978-1-4231-1710-0 Trade Paper, 978-1-4231-3494-7 E-Book - , 978-1-4231-4034-4 E-Book - , 978-1-4231-3189-2 Audio Recording Downloadable, 978-0-7393-4514-6

Description:

You've read the book. You've seen the movie. Now submerge yourself in the thrilling, stunning, and action-packed graphic novel.

Mythological monsters and the gods of Mount Olympus seem to be walking out of the pages of twelve-year-old Percy Jackson's textbooks and into his life. And worse, he's angered a few of them. Zeus's master lightning bolt has been stolen, and Percy is the prime suspect. Now, he and his friends have just ten days to find and return Zeus's stolen property and bring peace to a warring Mount Olympus.

Series creator Rick Riordan joins forces with some of the biggest names in the comic book industry to tell the story of a boy who must unravel a treachery more powerful than the gods themselves.

PW Publishers Weekly

Review Source: Publishers Weekly

Review Date: 2005-08-01

For this fast-paced adventure that zaps characters from Greek mythology into modern times, Bernstein gets the reading rhythm just right. He conveys Riordan's notes of humor, sarcasm and downright amazement in the voice of 12-year-old Percy Jackson, a smart kid who seems to be a magnet for trouble. But one day Percy discovers that being kicked out of a different school every year and dealing with learning challenges like ADHD is nothing compared to the truth of his life: he's a demigod, the son of Poseidon. Of course, among other things, that means an action-packed mission to the Underworld to find Zeus's stolen lightning bolt and return it to Mount Olympus (specially accessed as the 600th floor in the Empire State Building). Listeners will be hanging on every zippy chapter here and will be eager to find out where Percy heads next in this planned series. Ages 10-up. (July) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved