Rick Riordan is an award-winning writer of adult mysteries. For fifteen years he taught at middle schools in the San Francisco Bay area and in Texas. Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, Rick's first novel featuring the heroic young demigod, was the overall winner of the Red House Children's Book Award in 2006.
Funny . . . very exciting . . . but it's the storytelling that will get readers hooked. After all, this is the stuff of legends * Guardian * Funny and fast-paced . . . Percy is a hero that every kid will want to emulate * Sunday Express *