The Lightning Thief : Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Book 1 – Audiobook

Percy Jackson, a 12-year-old boy, is on the verge of being expelled from boarding school yet again. Despite his best efforts, he can’t seem to stay out of trouble. But how could he stand by and watch his scrawny best friend get bullied, or remain silent when his algebra teacher turns into a monster and tries to kill him? Of course, no one believes Percy’s story about the monster; he’s not even sure he believes it himself.

Everything changes when a Minotaur chases Percy to summer camp.

Suddenly, mythical creatures leap straight out of the pages of Percy’s Greek mythology textbook and into his life. He comes to realize that the gods of Mount Olympus 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.

Percy now has just ten 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 – a satyr and the demigod daughter of Athena – will face a host of enemies determined to stop them. To succeed on 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.