The Lightning Thief

Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1

By: Rick Riordan

Narrated by: Jesse Bernstein

Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins

Publisher's summary

Twelve-year-old Percy Jackson is about to be kicked out of boarding school...again. No matter how hard he tries, he can't seem to stay out of trouble. But can he really be expected to stand by and watch while a bully picks on his scrawny best friend? Or not defend himself against his pre-algebra teacher when she turns into a monster and tries to kill him? Of course, no one believes Percy about the monster incident; he's not even sure he believes himself.

Until the Minotaur chases him to summer camp.

Suddenly, mythical creatures seem to be walking straight out of the pages of Percy's Greek mythology textbook and into his life. The gods of Mount Olympus, he's coming to realize, are very much alive in the 21st-century. And worse, he's angered a few of them: Zeus's master lightning bolt has been stolen, and Percy is the prime suspect.

Now Percy has just 10 days to find and return Zeus's stolen property, and bring peace to a warring Mount Olympus. On a daring road trip from their summer camp in New York to the gates of the Underworld in Los Angeles, Percy and his friends, one a satyr and the other the demigod daughter of Athena, will face a host of enemies determined to stop them. To succeed in his quest, Percy will have to do more than catch the true thief: he must come to terms with the father who abandoned him; solve the riddle of the Oracle, which warns him of failure and betrayal by a friend; and unravel a treachery more powerful than the gods themselves.

Don't miss the other titles in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series.

©2005 Rick Riordan (P)2005 Random House, Inc. Listening Library, an imprint of the Random House Audio Publishing Group

Awesome

I loved it! I'm addicted to this series now and it's amazing. I don't have an attention span for physical books sadly.

Great narrator

Great book. Listened in the car with my 8.5 year old son and 6.5 year old daughter and we all enjoyed it. The narrator had a good pace and was easy to understand.

Awesome

so excited for the next book! great story about courage and perserverance! love the twists throughout and of course a happy ending.

Best book ever

Best book ever made I would rate this amazing book five out of five stars

amazing

a wonderful beginning to a long story i will never forget. highly recommend you read this

One Happy Teacher!

I teach 6th grade English Language Arts and this is our first novel of the year. I am so grateful for the audiobook! It is saving me from having to read it 5 times a day, it helps my struggling readers and my ELL students maintain the pace of the class as a whole. What I particularly like, is that I can skip forward or back to go to a specific chapter. There are other audiobooks that I use for class that have 5 chapter listed as one chapter. That makes it difficult when my classes are at different points. This recording is great!

Great book!

I love the storyline regardless, but I loved the performance as well, this book made me want to just keep listening! I would definitely recommend. Enjoy!

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Still a great story!!

I've read this before, and it was great to hear the story again. Even at my over 5 decades of life. I've always loved reading about Greek mythology. I especially like this version. I look forward to reading Riordan's other pantheons, namely the ones about the Norse gods.

It is so good

As a kid who didn’t really know what to do it was really good thank you Rick Riordan in for making this.