Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief (Book 1)

Author: Rick Riordan

General fiction (Children's/YA)

Published on 4 July 2013 by Penguin Random House Children's UK (Puffin) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Percy Jackson and The Olympians' series.

Paperback | 400 pages
196 x 129 x 27mm | 282g

The first book in the bestselling Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. Now with a new cover look! Discover the story behind the Disney+ series.

HALF BOY - HALF GOD - ALL HERO.

Look, I never asked to be the son of a Greek god. I was just a normal kid. . . until I accidentally vaporized my maths teacher.

Percy Jackson is having a bad week. His life has gone from totally normal to monsters-from-Greek-mythology-randomly-appearing kind of strange. Worse still, the king of the gods thinks Percy has stolen his all-powerful lightning bolt - and it seems making Zeus angry is a very bad idea.

Now Percy and his friends have just ten days to catch the true lightning thief and stop all-out war from erupting on Mount Olympus. . .

What could possibly go wrong?