The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)

by Rick Riordan

“I must go personally to purify this thunderbolt in the waters of Lemnos, to remove the human taint from its metal.”

“has always had a flair for dramatic exits.

You are a true son of the Sea God.”

That meat loaf done yet or what?”

“Just don’t make him angrier, all right? Come on.”

For the first time, I realized something. Gabe had hit my mother. I didn’t know when, or how much. But I was sure he’d done it. Maybe it had been going on for years, when I wasn’t around.

“He ran away,”

“I can…I’ll take you to work with me for the rest of the summer. In the fall, maybe there’s another boarding school—”

And so far, he was proud of what I’d done.

“a huge step forward in super-ugly neorealism.”

“They probably can’t,” Luke agreed. “It’s one of a kind.”

The dragon in the garden gave me this”—

“And this is how you repay her?”

He will cast the Olympians into Tartarus and drive humanity back to their caves. All except the strongest—the ones who serve him.”