and book 3: The Mark of Athena
Rating: Cleaner
Audience: Fourth grade and up. As always, it depends on the child. There is a good dose of violence and the complexity of the myths can be hard to follow.
Plot: This is a separate series from Percy Jackson and the Olympians but it's the same world, with some of the same characters and places. Percy and Annabeth come back in later books, but this book is about three new demigods: Leo, Piper, and Jason. All three are found at a school in the desert for juvenile delinquents, and taken to Camp Half Blood, where they are almost immediately sent off on a quest to rescue the goddess Hera, who is imprisoned by a new threat to Olympus. The main twist of the series is that the Olympian gods have two main personalities/forms--Greek and Roman, and Jason, who is suffering from hard-core amnesia, recognizes all the gods by their Roman names. If that isn't weird enough, he already has a sweet weapon and battle reflexes, though he has no idea where he got them.
What makes it great?
This book was awesome--I loved it! If you liked the Percy Jackson books, I can almost guarantee that you'll like this one too. It has the same funny, adventure-packed writing, and all sorts of great plot twists. I don't suggest reading this series if you haven't read the Percy Jackson series yet; Riordan gives you all the background you need to at least understand the story, but you'll get so much more out of it if you've read the first series.
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