Book 4, that I’m reading now, is 361 pages long. But now I’m reading much bigger books and liking them more.
Me: How does this compare with the way you read before? Also, there are dolphins, Matt’s favorite animal. It did help that in the books Percy is Poseidon’s son and Matt LOVES swimming. Also, I spent more time reading because I couldn’t wait to see what would happen next. The Sea of Monsters took less time because I knew it was going to be a good book, based on how much I liked the first one. Me: How long did it take you to read the second book? But it is one amazingly big book -384 pages- for a reluctant reader!) Note: (I’ve read it and, um, lots happens.
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I find that in a series the first book takes a while to get into because you have to learn all the characters. I read The Lightning Thief in eight days. At the library when your table is called you have to choose your book relatively fast. Me: How did you choose The Lightning Thief anyway? So, I asked Matt about this otherworldly phenomenon. After the five Percy Jackson books, Matt started in on Riordan’s Kane Chronicles series. Suddenly this kid was poring through the first in that series, the 384-page The Lightning Thief, then reaching for the next volume. The author’s first series, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, washed over Matt like Poseidon’s breath. He navigated through some of the Magic Treehouse books and some required reading, but for him reading was boring. Everyone else in his family read to him, read on their own, bought him books and so on, but Matt was not particularly interested. It was so FRUSTRATING! His sister Miranda had zoomed through Tolkien’s Hobbit, all of the Harry Potters, and a ton of other books by the age of ten or eleven. Nice family, cool friends, did well in school, etc. Matthew was a typical, smart, nine-year-old kid. However, he has an incredible secret power that raises him above the level of mere mortals. Although he might feel like he lives on Mount Olympus considering that his books have earned him thirty-five million dollars so far, he’s really just a regular guy, right? No glowing aura, no apparent ability to morph into something spectacular. You can see his quirky sense of humor in those eyes. Through her heritage and her friends, Piper finds her home.Look at a picture of Rick Riordan. She also shares stories of her relationship with her Cherokee grandfather and his stories that influence her throughout the books, which guide her to trust in herself and be proud of her family and of who she has become. Piper discusses childhood bullies who picked on her race, and the reader sees some of those unsavory classmates at the beginning of the first book as Piper encounters them.
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Initially introduced in the first book, “The Lost Hero,” in the “Heroes of Olympus” series, Piper McLean is the daughter of Aphrodite and Tristan McLean, a Hollywood movie star of Cherokee descent. Piper McLean Piper McLean appears in five of Riordan’s novels. I myself have had … let’s see, 33 mortal girlfriends and 11 mortal boyfriends?” The world of his novels has an accepting populace, and the gods are no exceptions. He also inputs his feelings in the first book, “The Hidden Oracle,” about his son dating Nico di Angelo, another male demigod: “We gods are not hung up about such things. He is also bisexual, something that Riordan explicitly states in the second novel, “The Dark Prophecy,” when he encounters and relives some of his memories with Emperor Commodus, his lover from Ancient Rome. In the “Trials of Apollo” series, Zeus strips Apollo of his immortality and drops him on earth as 16-year-old Lester Papadopoulos, who retains none of his godly prowess.
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