The Lost Hero is a great book by Rick Riordan.
It is the first book in the second Camp-Half Blood series, The Heroes of
Olympus. The first series is called Percy Jackson and the Olympians.
Jason
wakes up in a bus holding the hand of a girl he doesn’t know and going
somewhere he doesn’t know where. He doesn’t remember anything before waking up
in that bus. Turns out he went to a school for ‘bad kids’ ( what did he do to
end up THERE? ). His best friend is Leo, a guy who loves making stuff from
scraps of metal and all. He apparently has a girlfriend called Piper, a girl he
definitely hasn’t met before.
They
are on a field trip to the Grand Canyon with Coach Hedge, the chaperone and a
bunch of other kids from the school. Once they get there, a huge storm comes up
and Coach Hedge gets taken away by a venti, a storm spirit. Then, a flying
chariot comes and Piper, Jason, and Leo are whisked away to a camp.
They
then discover that the Greek gods that are in Greek Mythology are real and that
the monsters are real too. A magical force called the Mist makes the mortals
see only what they can decipher, not the truth. The gods sometimes have kids
with mortals, kids that are called demigods, or half-bloods, half human, half
god. They also discover that they are one of those kids; Piper being the
Daughter of Aphrodite, Goddess of Love, Leo was the Son of Hephaestus, God of
Craftsmanship. And Jason was Son of Zeus, God of the Sky.
The
camp they were taken to, Camp Half-Blood is the only safe place for their kind,
demigods, since monsters could not come through the magical barrier around the
camp.
Soon
they discovered that Hera, Queen of the Gods, had taken Jason’s memory and was
now imprisoned. In order to get Jason’s memory back, they would have to rescue
Hera and stop Gaea, Goddess of the Earth, from awakening. So, the three go on a
quest to rescue Hera.
Will
they make it? Read the book to find out!
I love
this book. I like it because it holds a lot of mystery and action. It is also a
great tool to learn Greek Mythology ( or at least a bit of it ). I recommend
that you read the first series first, so it will make more sense to you.
I
recommend this to ages 10+.
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