Last week I read the book, The Lightning Thief, by Rick Riordan which is the first book in a series of books, about humans that are half-human and half-god, they are called half-bloods. This book brings us back in the world of Greek mythology, and then brings that world into western civilization in the United States. I loved this book, not only for the great writing, action packed plot, and dynamic characters, but because it has a lot of history, facts, myths, and tales rolled up into a fiction novel. I love that as a teacher's viewpoint, students would read this, and then want to read some Greek mythology to better understand characters in the book, circumstances, and innuendos. This story follows a 6th grade boy, Percy Jackson, from a school where he is attacked to Olympus where he.... I'll leave that up to you to find out! I do have some criticism, Percy Jackson in the book is supposed to go to the Underworld and get the lightning bolt back, and then return it to Zeus to
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