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Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief By Rick Riordan

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“The bull-man screamed and flung me through the air. I landed flat on my back in the grass. My head smacked against a rock. When I sat up, my vision was blurry, but I had a horn in my hands, a ragged bone weapon the size of a knife. The monster charged.” What did Percy Jackson do next? You’ll only find out if you read Percy Jackson and the Olympians - The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan. Percy Jackson was a twelve-year-old student, not knowing that his mother and others were protecting him from danger since his birth. On a beach trip his mother finally realized he was going to die, so she sacrificed her life to the bull-man (Minotaur) so Percy could get to a safe place. Percy had arrived at Camp Half-Blood, and found out he was a

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