Percy Jackson has always been able to think better around water, and be calmer near it. That's a very good thing, because his high school academic record has been dismal, mainly due to his ADHD and dyslexia. He doesn't know yet that he's a demi-god, the son of Poseidon. As he soon learns, the whole Greek mythological world exists today and always has, and the gods brawl and love as they always did.
When Percy discovers his heritage, he has to flee to Camp-Half Blood, a training camp for demi-gods, children with a Greek god for one parent. Here he's protected from the monsters who hunt demi-god, but must learn to fight them. He learns that his ADHD is the sign of his “battle skills” coming out, which help him pay attention to everything at once, and that his dyslexia is due to his brain being hard-wired to read ancient Greek. He must quickly develop all the fighting skills he can, because he's accused of stealing Zeus' thunderbolt, the mightiest weapon ever forged, and has ten days to return it before there's a war between the Big Three gods, Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades. In a quest which spans the continent, Percy goes after the lightning bolt with his new friends Grover, a satyr, and Annabeth, the daughter of Athena.
I loved this brilliant young adult novel, the first in a series. It's even sweeter to know that Riordan conceived this world out of bedtime stories demanded by his son, who struggled with ADHD and dyslexia.
The movie is not quite as good, but it has Chiron, Percy's centaur tutor, played by Pierce Brosnan in an award-winning role for best chest.
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