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This Zinger is on page 285-286, stating, "How did you die, then?" I nudged Grover. "Oh," he said. "Um... drowned...in the bathtub." "All three of you?" Charon asked. We nodded. "Big bathtub," Charon looked mildly impressed." (Riordan). First of all, what would be so impressive about three people dying in a bathtub. This is amusing because how three people get in a bathtub that deep, without knowing how to swim. One person couldn't save the one drowning, or did they all drown altogether?

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If I was in Greek Mythology, I would like to be a son of Poseidon too. Why? Because the Earth is 70% water, and water is all around us. Therefore, I am 70% more powerful than everyone.

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Grover experiences this throughout the whole book. One example is found on page 161, reading, "All three of them," Grover whimpered. "Di immortales!" (Riordan). This indicates that Grover is scared of foreign characters, because what he just seen are three of the worst monsters from the Underworld

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"W"rite a poem explaining the theme of this book.

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"W"rite a poem explaining the theme of this book.

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The Theme of this book is about discovering identity.
Camp Half-Blood is in Manhattan near New York City.
Percy did not know who he was, but now I think that he does.
He's the son of the God of the Sea, the god of Earthquakes who shows no mercy.
Percy finds his weaknesses are his great strengths, where those "weaknesses" will take him to great lengths.
That dyslexia and ADHD, made him return the bolt safely.
He had Grover and Annabeth as his help, and every choice he makes he becomes more of himself.

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"V"isiting your favorite character (Percy Jackson).

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"V"isiting your favorite character (Percy Jackson).

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1. How are you so young and powerful? -It is not fair that he is 12 years old and can't drown, breathe underwater, and control water while killing monsters. He beat a god 1 on 1 for god's sake!

2. Do you like Annabeth? -I know he does, but you got to ask him to get him worked up and nervous.

3. If you had no weapons and could use no powers, who would win in a fight, you or Clarisse?- I only ask him this because I want to test his confidence in himself.

4.What or who do you love the most?- I am expecting his answer to be his mom, which it would most likely be. But how about his powerful abilities, Grover, Camp Half-Blood, Poseidon, or maybe even Annabeth?

5. What is your second favorite color? -Blue is his favorite, no question, but his wardrobe and preferences can't be blue and blue only!

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Rick Riordan facts
1.He has two sons
2. He was born on June 5th, 1964.
3. He was born in Texas.
4. Over 20 million of his books are in print and growing.
5. The Kane Chronicles are centered around Egyptian Mythology vs Greek Mythology in Percy Jackson.
6. His net worth is 35 million in 2016.
7. Percy Jackson has dyslexia and ADHD, is based on his son, Haley, having ADHD and dyslexia too.
8. His wife Becky, has the same birthday as him.
9. Grover, in the book, his birthday is June 5th too!
10. Rick Riordan used to play in a rock band.
11. Rick likes to listen to jazz music while he writes.
12. Travis, Nico, Connor, and Beckendorf, all later revealed later in the series, are named after his former students as a teacher.

Rick Riordan loved teaching mythology to his students, When his son Haley was diagnosed with dyslexia and ADHD one of the few subjects that interested him was mythology. Rick made up the story of Percy Jackson and his adventures during story time to Haley at night. Haley said Rick should write a book about Percy and the rest is history.

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_Sountrack For Percy Jackson

Drowning- By Kodak Black and A Boogie wit Da Hoodie. --This song is on his playlist because even though it is impossible, there are points in Percy's life where he feels like he is drowning, or wants to.

Dear Mama- Lil Uzi Vert
This song is on his playlist because Percy really loves his mother, and in this song, LIl Uzi Vert states, "Like my dad Imma grinder-" where him and Poseidon are godlike and share similar traits according to Percy's mom.

Shawn Mendes- Hold on
This song is on his playlist because Percy, when making decisions and fighting monsters, and almost dying, usually wants to give in and stop everything. But this song will tell him to hold on, and to persevere for the greater good.

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On page 175, it reads, "What's that hissing noise?" he asked." (Riordan). This shows how Grover is using his ears, to hear the hissing noises of the snakes in Medusa's hair. No one else heard it, but Grover heard the snakes because he realized her identity.

"It smelled nothing like burning food. It smelled of hot chocolate and fresh-baked brownies, hamburgers on the grill and wildflowers..." (Riordan 105). This indicates Percy using his sense of smell of how smoke smells like, delicious!

"Chocolate-chip cookies," I said. "My mom's. Home-made." (Riordan 61). This means that Percy is drinking nectar, which is supposed to taste like nectar, and he is using his taste buds to taste a welcoming taste.

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The resolution of the Lightning Thief is revolved around the conflict, which is the lightning bolt of Zeus getting stolen. The resolution is that the lightning bolt is safely returned, and that the thief of the bolt is from Camp Half-Blood. Luke stole the bolt, and has given his life to Kronos. Luke has put a scorpion on Percy to show him he has switched sides, and the Percy almost kills Percy, and after the Camp finds out about this, they isolate themselves from Luke.

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"Young man, names are powerful things. You don't go around using them for no reason." (Riordan page 69). This is my favorite quote because it is so true. People throw names around like sports balls, like what is the purpose of using names if you have nothing good to say about that name?

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Percy Jackson
-He is courageous, selfless, heroic, smart, quick-thinking, honest, confident, and also egotistical. He is crafty, and believes in honesty all the way. He is to never stab his friends in the back, and would always put others before him.

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Perseus " Percy" Jackson is a fictional character, the title character and narrator of Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson & the Olympians series. He is also one of seven main protagonists of the sequel series The Heroes of Olympus, appearing in every book except The Lost Hero, and appears in the Trials of Apollo series, making him one of the few characters to appear in all three series of the Camp Half-Blood chronicles. He has also been a narrator and protagonist in Riordan's Greco-Roman/Egyptian crossover stories, part of the Demigods and Magicians collection. The character serves as the narrator in Percy Jackson's Greek Gods and Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes, also by Rick Riordan.

Percy Jackson is played by Logan Lerman in the film adaptations and by Chris McCarrell in the musical. Walker Scobell is set to portray the character in the upcoming TV adaptation for Disney+.

Creation and conception

Development of the character Percy Jackson began when Rick Riordan started inventing stories for his son Haley Riordan, who was diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia in the spring of 2002. When Haley was in second grade and he was studying Greek mythology, he asked his father to tell him bedtime stories based on those myths. When his father ran out of ideas, Haley suggested that he make up new stories that combined existing mythological characters with new ones. This led Riordan to create the fictional character of Percy Jackson and the story of his travels across the United States to recover Zeus's lightning-bolt. Haley then[when? ] suggested it be written as a novel. Riordan received input on the manuscript from some of his middle school students before taking the idea of Percy Jackson to a publisher.

Riordan has said that Percy Jackson's original character was "inspired by my son's own struggle" at school. Haley and Percy have been cited as the "same age" and share several character traits, though they are by no means the same person. Riordan has also stated that Percy has "[his] sense of humor" and is also "based on many of the students [he has] had in the past."

In the story, Percy Jackson is portrayed as a demigod, the son of the mortal Sally Jackson and the Greek god Poseidon. He has ADHD and dyslexia, allegedly because he is hardwired to read Ancient Greek and has inborn "battlefield reflexes". Percy's birthday is August 18. In the first novel of the series, The Lightning Thief, he is twelve years old.

His personality is described as "changeable like the sea" and hard to predict - with the important exception that he is dangerously loyal to his friends and family. The goddess Athena describes this as his fatal flaw. Percy's "powers", which start small and develop as the books proceed, include controlling water, making hurricanes, breathing underwater, and talking to horse-like animals and fish. He also becomes an accomplished sword-fighter and leader. Throughout Percy Jackson & the Olympians, Percy grows more confident and brave. He serves as the first head counselor of the Poseidon cabin at his demigod summer camp - Camp Half-Blood.

After The Last Olympian, the next time Percy is seen is in The Son of Neptune, the second book in the sequel series The Heroes of Olympus. He has amnesia and slowly struggles to regain his memory over the course of the novel. For a while in the book he cannot remember anything other than Annabeth Chase, his long-time friend. He arrives at a Roman establishment called Camp Jupiter, and is elected praetor as a result of the help he offers them on a quest. During the remaining three books in the third person his character develops significantly. He develops an irrational fear of drowning; is humbled by weakening sword-fighting skills; and expresses a new tendency to make ambiguous moral choices in defense of his friends and family. One of the character's darkest moments comes in The House of Hades, when Percy discovers that he can control the water in a person's body, and uses it to torture the goddess Akhlys. Percy's girlfriend Annabeth Chase is present and brings him to his senses, but remains haunted by his readiness to use that new power.

At the end of The Blood of Olympus, Percy and Annabeth reveal plans to finish their senior year of high school together in New York, and then attend college in New Rome (a demigod-only city located in California, guarded by Camp Jupiter). In The Hidden Oracle, Percy has been accepted to the college with a full scholarship, provided he can pass his SATs and graduate on time despite the semester he spent away (while missing during The Lost Hero). Percy's concern for his future and family leads him to uncharacteristically turn down Lester Papadopoulous's request for help on a quest to regain his godhood (Papadopoulous being the mortal form of the god Apollo).

Friends and family

Percy is the son of Poseidon; his mother, Sally Jackson, married a man named Gabe Ugliano when Percy was young. Ugliano was abusive towards Percy and Sally, the latter of whom leaves him in The Lightning Thief. It is later known that Sally married Ugliano as the latter was so mortal and human and gave off such a stench that no monster would roam anywhere near his surroundings. As Percy was a strong demigod (a son of Poseidon, one of the "Big Three") and such demigods attract monsters more than usual, she had to marry him to protect Percy from danger.

Between the time of The Battle of the Labyrinth and The Last Olympian, Sally marries Paul Blofis, a man she met in a writing seminar. Percy likes and respects his new step-father and eventually reveals to him that he is a demigod. Though understandably shocked, Blofis still stays with the Jackson family and accepts Percy's complicated life. In The Hidden Oracle, Sally is seven months pregnant with Paul's child, and later gives birth to Estelle in The Tower of Nero, making her Percy's half-sister.

Percy has a half-brother named Tyson, who is a cyclops. Though Percy is related to virtually every character and creature in Greek mythology through his father Poseidon, Tyson is one of the only beings whom he acknowledges as family. Percy first met Tyson at a school called Meriwether Prep, and did not learn of their relationship until much later. Percy is also distantly related to horses, pegasi, some other monsters, and numerous gods and demigods through his father. Significant examples of this would be that he is technically a grandson of Kronos, nephew to Hades, Zeus, and numerous other Olympians, as well as the half-nephew of Chiron.

Percy's oldest friend is Grover Underwood, a satyr originally tasked with protecting him and bringing him safely to Camp Half-Blood. His next-oldest friend is Annabeth Chase, whom he meets when she helps nurse him back to health after his first fight with the Minotaur. The two accompany him on his first, and most of his subsequent, quests.

Percy is also close to many other characters in the book series. His closest friends include Thalia Grace, daughter of Zeus and leader of the Hunters of Artemis; Luke Castellan, son of Hermes (at first Percy's friend, then his enemy, and finally Percy's friend at the time of his death); Nico di Angelo, son of Hades; Rachel Elizabeth Dare, a mortal Pythia, or host of a prophetic spirit; Hazel Levesque, daughter of Pluto; Leo Valdez, son of Hephaestus; Jason Grace, son of Jupiter; Piper McLean, daughter of Aphrodite; and Frank Zhang, son of Mars. Frank Zhang is also a descendant of Periclymenus, descendant of Poseidon, and so distantly related to Percy. Percy also has a unique relationship with Clarisse La Rue, daughter of Ares and Camp Half-Blood's resident bully, whom he allegedly dislikes but often helps.

Romantic relationships

Percy's oldest romantic relationship is with Annabeth Chase. Their relationship gradually changes throughout the first series, with the goddess Aphrodite first insinuating that it was romantic in The Titan's Curse, when Percy undertakes a quest to free Annabeth from the Titan Atlas. However, Percy's first move towards a serious relationship does not occur until the final pages of The Last Olympian.

Other romantic relationships are shown to have been possibilities before this however. As the final battle with the Titans approaches after The Battle of the Labyrinth, Percy spends time with his mortal friend Rachel Dare. Their relationship causes Chase to become jealous and helps enact the events of The Last Olympian. Towards the end of the book, Rachel realizes that her attraction is not to Percy, but to the mythological world he is in, because of her destiny as the next Oracle of Delphi.

Three other characters in the novels are romantically interested in Percy, though he remains mostly oblivious. Nico di Angelo's hero worship of Percy turns into an ever-worsening crush on him; at the same time, Nico resents Percy because he believes that Percy had allowed his sister Bianca to die in battle. The second is Calypso, who was banished to the island of Ogygia. The third is Reyna Ramírez-Arellano, who, while is silently attracted to her comrade Jason Grace, finds herself attracted to many of Percy's similar traits.

Magical animal companions

Percy has several animal companions. The first is Blackjack, a black pegasus that Percy liberates from the Princess Andromeda in The Sea of Monsters. Blackjack is referred to as a " mare" in The Sea of Monsters, but is called a stallion in all later books. Blackjack becomes Percy's personal steed and companion. Blackjack is unfailingly loyal to Percy, and on several occasions manages to save Percy's life. Blackjack always calls Percy "boss" and is quite fond of sugar cubes and doughnuts.

Percy's second magical companion is Mrs. O'Leary, who is introduced in the fourth novel, Battle of the Labyrinth. She is a hellhound whom he receives from Daedalus before the inventor dies. Though Mrs. O'Leary is described as "the size of a tank", the magical veil known as the Mist causes her to appear as a poodle to mortals. Percy often refers to her as "his dog". Percy sometimes uses Mrs. O'Leary's ability to "shadow travel" to cross large distances almost instantaneously. His brother Tyson and friend Charles Beckendorf are Mrs. O'Leary's other caretakers, though she is also fond of Nico di Angelo.

Percy also knows a hippocampus named Rainbow, who likes Tyson. It first appears in The Sea of Monsters, where it helps Percy and his friends enter Luke Castellan's boat Princess Andromeda. It later saves Tyson's life and returns to help the two brothers on several occasions.

Percy has also traveled with a small calico kitten called Small Bob by Bob the Titan. Small Bob was accidentally created by one of Atlas's servants who was attempting to summon a group of spartoi. When Percy is trapped in Tartarus during The House of Hades, Annabeth, Bob, and he find and travel with the kitten. He is fond of Bob and protective of the traveling group, leading Bob to call him "a good monster". Small Bob can transform into a full sized saber-toothed tiger at will and occasionally appears as a skeleton for a few seconds at a time. His purr is disproportionately loud for an animal of his size. Small Bob remains in Tartarus with Iapetus to help hold open the Doors of Death. It is unclear if he lives or dies, but he is not mentioned again.

Description

Percy is described as handsome, with messy jet black hair, a Mediterranean[page needed ] complexion, and sea-green eyes like his father Poseidon. His mother notes that Percy looked just like his father, and his friend Hazel says that he has the looks of a Roman god.

Like most demigods, Percy has ADHD and dyslexia, the former because of his godly battle instincts, and the latter because his brain takes more naturally to Ancient Greek than to English. After being trained at Camp Half-Blood, he has developed a Greek fighting style (described as unpredictable by New Romans) and is an expert swordsman. After bathing in the River Styx, Percy was given the curse of Achilles, making him invulnerable except for the small of his back. He loses this power when it is washed away in the Little Tiber surrounding New Rome, as part of his acceptance there. In addition, he has an "empathy link" with his first friend from Camp Half-Blood, Grover.

As a son of Poseidon, one of the " Big Three" (the others being Zeus and Hades), Percy is more powerful than most of the gods' other children. He also has a degree of authority over his father's subjects. Percy is gifted with several semi-divine abilities: the ability to manipulate water and currents; enhanced strength/energy and senses while near the water; the ability to breathe underwater; the ability to operate old sailing ships with his mind; mental communication with marine animals, equine animals, water nymphs, and some of his relatives; and the creation of small earthquakes and hurricanes. All of Percy's abilities correspond to the myths about and abilities of his father.

Percy's main weapon is Anaklusmos ("Riptide"), a sword made of celestial bronze given to him by Chiron the centaur, on the instructions of Poseidon; the sword's history goes back to Heracles, who was gifted that sword by the nymph Zoë Nightshade, a daughter of Atlas. Riptide can change shape; when it is not a sword, it appears as a ballpoint pen engraved with its name. It reappears in the character's pocket when lost. Since it is made of celestial bronze it will harm gods, demigods, and monsters, but simply passes through mortals. Percy has also used magic javelins made by his brother Tyson, magically camouflaging armor made by Charles Beckendorf, and the wand of Carter Kane. In The Sea of Monsters, his half-brother Tyson gives him a wristwatch that changes into a shield covered with designs, but the watch is damaged in The Titan's Curse and lost in The Battle of the Labyrinth.

Percy has several magical items obtained from battles against monsters. The first of these is the horn of the Minotaur, which he obtains after killing the beast on Half-Blood Hill. Another is the head of Medusa, which he cuts off after killing the gorgon. He gives the head away several times, finally leaving it with his mother, who "disposes of it". He also obtains a bullet- and sword-proof lion skin coat when he killed the Nemean lion, which he later sacrifices as an offering to Poseidon in order to save Annabeth.

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Perseus " Percy" Jackson is a fictional character, the title character and narrator of Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson & the Olympians series. He is also one of seven main protagonists of the sequel series The Heroes of Olympus , appearing in every book except The Lost Hero, and appears in the Trials of Apollo series, making him one of the few characters to appear in all three series of the Camp Half-Blood chronicles.

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This book reminds me of the movie, The Lightning Thief, released in 2010 and directed by Chris Columbus. In this movie, an always trouble prone life of Percy Jackson, gets more complicated after he learns he is the son of a Greek God.

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The Lightning Thief is told in the first person, by Percy Jackson. Percy Jackson explains his life before Camp Half-Blood, how he is a troublemaker. How arriving at Camp Half-Blood was a tough event. How his quest was difficult but fun, and how his least favorite god is Ares. And also, how Mount Olympus is extraordinary.

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There is a personal connection between me and Grover. The differences are he is a sidekick, and I can never be that. The connection is us getting bullied, where we walk weird and run funny. He is a satyr so that's his excuse, but I broke the same leg twice and it has not fully recovered. However, Grover does not stand up to them, he lets it happen, and me, I don't let it happen because if it does, bad things happen.

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Fight for what is believed in. Percy believed his mother was not dead, and he had to fight a Minotaur, Medusa, and even a god to get her back and retrieve stolen items. If he had given up, he would have not gotten his mother back.

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Why does Annabeth like Luke but not Percy?

Annabeth likes Luke because Luke was that hero figure when Annabeth ran away, and Annabeth looked up to her, and fell head over heels. Percy was just an annoying friend to her, until later in the series.

Why is Grover bullied from other students?

Grover was bullied because he was different, and his differences made it easy for other kids to bully him. He was scrawny, emotional, cripple, and he walked funny.

What happened to Percy's Mom?

Percy's mother did not die, but she has dissolved in a golden flash, and kept frozen in the Underworld.

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My Book is a spectacular piece of literature. I strongly recommend this novel because it has clear elements that appeal to many types of people. Romance, comedy, violence, loss, depression, confusion, victory, failure, and hope. These qualities all in one book has to be one big roller coaster! This roller coaster of a book is a great book, and I believe it will surprise you.

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This is a drawing of lightning, and a hand about to grab it, hence the term, 'The Lightning Thief."

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Dear Ares,

How did you lose to Percy? I know he is the son of your uncle, Poseidon, but how!! He is a 12 year old kid!!! How does the god of war, you, lose to a kid, in a fight? You need to do better, or be a god of something else. Because obviously, war is not for you.

Sincerely,

-Joshua Beauplan

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Luke Castellan.
This Antagonist is clever, witty, sneaky, and makes you believe he is one of the good guys. He is loyal to his master, and is driven by his goal and/or duty.

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"You have made an enemy, godling," (Riordan 331). (This is after Ares lost the fight to Percy). This is an alternative ending.

"SLICE" That is the sound of Percy's head getting sliced off. "HA! You weakling! I told you that you are no match for a God!!" Annabeth and Grover cower in fear. Ares takes the lightning bolt and helm, and vanishes...

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Simile: "I looked down and almost shot out of the water like a ballistic missile." (Riordan 270).

Metaphor: "some days, you could tell what mood it was in. Most days, though, it was unreadable, mysterious." (Riordan 354). Compares the ocean as moody and mysterious without using like or as.

Hyperbole: "The roar that followed made Hades's earthquake look like a minor event." (Riordan 330). This is a simile also, but a god's earthquake is never a minor event, so Percy is over exaggerating.

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The Exposition begins when Percy Jackson arrives at Camp Half-Blood. "The last thing I remember is collapsing on a wooden porch, looking up at a ceiling fan circling above me, moths flying around a yellow light, and the stern faces of a familiar-looking bearded man and a pretty girl..." (Riordan 56). The familiar bearded man is his teacher and hero, Chiron. And the blonde hair girl is his future girlfriend to-ne, Annabeth Chase, daughter of Athena. "He's the one. He must be." (Riordan 56). This develops the conflict for not only the book, but the whole story, where Annabeth states that Percy is the one for the prophecy that will change mankind forever.

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There are plenty of settings in 'The Lightning Thief,' but the one I will describe is Mount Olympus. Mount Olympus is a beauteous place, on the peak of a mountain with its peak covered in snow. There were plenty of palaces, all with white-columned porticos, with bronze braziers glowing with a thousand fires. Palaces glittered white and silver, with twelve thrones in the shape of a U.

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The Climax is found on page 314, reading, "I slung it off my shoulder and unzipped it. Inside was a two-foot-long metal cylinder, spiked on both ends, humming with energy." (Riordan). This is the climax because Percy Jackson has been on a quest to find the bolt to realize that he has it the whole time, and since he found it, it made the gods angry,

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The Sea of Monsters, The Titan's Curse, The Last Olympian, The Son of Neptune, The Lost Hero... and plenty more!