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The lost hero

Riordan, Rick. (Author).

Summary: "Jason has a problem. He doesn't remember anythign before waking up in a bus full of kids on a field trip. Apparently, he has a girlfriend named Piper, and his best friend is a guy named Leo. They're all students at the Wilderness School, a boarding school for "bad kids," as Leo puts it. What did Jason do to end up here? And where is here, exactly? jason doesn't know anything - except that everything seems very wrong. Piper has a secret. Her father, a famous actor, has been missing for three days, ever since she had that terrifying nightmare about his being in trouble. Piper doesn't understand her dream, or why her boyfriend suddenly doesn't recognize her. When a freak storm hits during the school trip, unleashing strange creatures and whisking her, Jason, and Leo away to someplace called Camp Half-Blood, she has a feelign she's going to find out, whether she wants to or not. Leo has a way with tools. When he sees his cabin at Camp Half-Blood, filled with power tools and machine parts, he feels right at home. But there's weird stuff, too - like the curse everyone keeps talking about, and some camper who's gone missing. Weirdest of all, his bunkmates insist that each of them - including Leo - is related to a god. Does this have anything to do with Jason's amnesia, or the fact that Leo keeps seeing ghosts? Join new and old friends from Camp Hal-Blood in this thrilling first book in the Heroes of Olympus series." -- cover, pg. 4.

Item details

  • ISBN: 9780545462624 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 0545462622 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 9780545477963
  • ISBN: 0545477964
  • Physical Description: print
    557 p. ; 20 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Scholastic, 2012.

Contents / Notes

General Note:
Originally published: New York : Disney/Hyperion Books, 2010.
"First Scholastic printing, January 2012." --Verso t.p.
"This edition is available for distribution only through the school market." --P. [4] of cover.
Includes a glossary of Greek/Roman Gods mentioned throughout the book.
Study Program Information Note:
AR MG 4.5 19.0 140427.
Subject: Mythology, Greek Juvenile fiction
Camps Juvenile fiction
Hera (Greek deity) Juvenile fiction
Gaia (Greek deity) Juvenile fiction
Monsters Juvenile fiction
Mythology, Greek Fiction
Camps Fiction
Hera (Greek deity) Fiction
Gaia (Greek deity) Fiction
Monsters Fiction
Genre: Adventure stories, American.


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