Publication Date: June 2005
Reading Level: Lexile Measure 740L, Scholastic Guided Reading Level W
Interest Level: Grades 6 - 8
Major Awards: 2006 Children's Book Award
Number of Pages: 240 pages
Approximate Word Count: 73,200 words -- The average reader will spend 8 hours and 27 minutes reading Percy Jackson and the Olympians The Lightning Thief at 250 words per minute.*
Audible Book Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
Book Themes: Identity, Isolation, Love, Family, Violence, Memory, Lies and Deceit
Genre: Quest
Setting: From New York to Los Angeles, CA including stops at Auntie Em's Garden Gnome Emporium, the Woods, St. Louis Gateway Arch, Denver, and Las Vegas, Underworld, Mount Olympus
Important Quote:
If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.
First Line: Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood.
Point of View: First Person (Central) Narrator from the Perspective of Percy Jackson
*This is an estimate from Reading Length.
