A.R. Book Level: 4.7
A.R. Points: 17.0
Pages: 521
I pretty much love anything Rick Riordan writes--especially anything with Percy Jackson in it. So I knew I would love this book, and I did! The second book in the "Heroes of Olympus" series, this finds Percy Jackson, with a bad case of amnesia, at a camp for Roman (not Greek) demigods. He doesn't know where he came from, but he knows that he has power over water, that trouble is brewing, and that his new Roman friends need his help. He sets out on a fate-of-the-world kind of quest with a group of underdogs and meets plenty of mythological beings along the way; basically, it's your standard Rick Riordan stuff. But like your standard Rick Riordan stuff, it's SO much fun to read. One warning: this book has a lot of references to little details in past books. Readers who really want to "get" everything should have already read Riordan's entire Percy Jackson and the Olympians series as well as The Lost Hero (which are all terrific, by the way).