{"id":1499,"date":"2020-06-11T15:12:20","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T15:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kildarelibrariesblog.com\/?p=1499"},"modified":"2020-06-11T15:12:20","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T15:12:20","slug":"percy-jackson-and-the-lightening-thief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/blog\/percy-jackson-and-the-lightening-thief\/","title":{"rendered":"Percy Jackson and the Lightening Thief"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"348\" height=\"534\" src=\"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/pru_860316_m_pru_860316_cover_large.jpg?w=348\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1501\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Author: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/15872.Rick_Riordan\">Rick Riordan<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reviewed by: Aoife Kerr, Leixlip Branch<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ages 8 and up <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Percy Jackson is a good kid, but he can&#8217;t seem to focus on his schoolwork or control his temper. And lately, being away at boarding school is only getting worse &#8211; Percy could have sworn his pre-algebra teacher turned into a monster and tried to kill him. When Percy&#8217;s mom finds out, she knows it&#8217;s time that he knew the truth about where he came from, and that he go to the one place he&#8217;ll be safe. She sends Percy to Camp Half Blood, a summer camp for demigods (on Long Island), where he learns that the father he never knew is Poseidon, God of the Sea. Soon a mystery unfolds and together with his friends\u00e2\u20ac\u201done a satyr and the other the demigod daughter of Athena &#8211; Percy sets out on a quest across the United States to reach the gates of the Underworld (located in a recording studio in Hollywood) and prevent a catastrophic war between the gods.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is such an amazing book. It is so well written, easy to read and very relatable. Rick Riordan is such an amazing writer and I love that the Greek gods are alive and breathing in the 21<sup>st<\/sup> century. Percy Jackson is an amazing character, a bit clueless at times, but his story is one that I go back to on a regular basis. This book is one that everyone should read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author: Rick Riordan\u00c2\u00a0 Reviewed by: Aoife Kerr, Leixlip Branch Ages 8 and up Percy Jackson is a good kid, but he can&#8217;t seem to focus on his schoolwork or control his temper. And lately, being away at boarding school is only getting worse &#8211; Percy could have sworn his pre-algebra teacher turned into a monster [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182174489,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6925997],"tags":[5879595,11890844,7224,974030,5174,51066],"class_list":["post-1499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews-and-recommendations","tag-ages-10","tag-ages-8-10","tag-fantasy","tag-greek-gods","tag-mythology","tag-olympus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182174489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1499"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1503,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions\/1503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}