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Perseus “Percy” Jackson is a twelve year old kid. He is a boarding student in a private school called Yancy Academy. He has trouble with school, because he has dyslexia and ADHD. Percy lives with his mother Sally Jackson and his stepfather who he awfully hate, Gabe Ugliano. His best friend who have been there with him all through the year, Grover Underwood, takes him Camp Half-Blood. Camp Half-Blood is a camp for all the gods’ and goddesses’ daughters and sons. There, Percy finds what Grover really is, a Satyr, who is half goat from waist to bottom (he also tiny horns on their head). He also finds out that his Greek mythology teacher, Mr. Brunner, is Chiron, a centaur (half horse from waist to bottom). What caused Percy to stay in Camp Half-Blood is because he have been almost killed by a fury (the fury was in disguise as Mrs. Dodds, the substitute for pre-algebra subject) and unluckily, his mother crushed by the hands of a minotaur on their way to Camp Half-Blood. Percy later then meets Annabeth Chase, daughter of Athena, and Luke Castellan, son of Hermes. As the campers and Percy were playing capture the flag, Percy healed by water (by voices of a god) and had a glowing trident spins on top of his head. They officially knew he is Poseidon’s son.
Zeus’s lightning bolt gets lost and sent all his sons and daughters to look for it. After Poseidon confessing he have broken the oath (of not having kids with mortals after World War 2), Zeus immediately accuses Percy. So then, Percy, Annabeth, and Grover takes a quest to find Zeus’s lightning bolt. They decide to head to the Underworld to save Percy’s mom but only Percy knows that. According to the prophecy, “You shall go west,” The three (Percy, Annabeth, and Grover) fights the three ...

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...ng thief and the betrayed friend, “You shall be betrayed by one who calls you a friend”.
Campers from the Camp Half-blood starts leaving, and barely any year-rounder stays. Percy had to choose to either to stay in camp for whole year or go home back with his mother, who has returned as an appreciation reward from Hades for receiving his helm back. Annabeth goes home with her father and try to reunite (they had a not-so-well relationship ever since he married a girl, now Annabeth’s stepmother). Grover went to his ultimate quest, to find Pan (God of nature, the wild, shepherds, flocks, goats, and mountain wild). When Percy decides to go home with his mom, Sally decides to turn Gabe into stone with Medusa’s head that Percy mailed to Olympus but was sent back to Percy. Percy and Sally moved into another apartment and Percy attends another private school in Manhattan.

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