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Usually the monsters turn to dust (though one is beheaded as a trophy) and the demigods get magically healed. There's a lot of mythology to keep straight and some tense monster fights. He's resilient, resourceful, and brave in the face of danger. On a quest, his more heroic qualities come through. In The Lightning Thief he finds out his absent father is a Greek god (Greek gods still inhabit the modern world and have affairs with mortals) and that he has powers of his own as a demigod. He's a sardonically funny 12-year-old with dyslexia and ADHD who is not so great with authority. That's when most kids are ready for a main character like Percy Jackson. The best time for kids to get rolling is fourth or fifth grade. Once kids get started with The Lightning Thief, they often blow through all three series. Parents need to know that The Lightning Thief is the first book by Rick Riordan in a long-running saga that includes five books in the main series, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, five books in a spinoff series, The Heroes of Olympus, and five books in another spinoff series, The Trials of Apollo.
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