Rick Riordan Percy Jackson: El Ladrón del Rayo / The Lightning Thief: Percy Jackson and the Olympians

El ladr?n del rayo, el comienzo de la conocida serie «Percy Jackson y los Dioses del Olimpo . Acompa?a a Percy a trav?s de esta apasionante serie de aventuras sobre un mundo secreto, el mundo que los antiguos dioses griegos han recreado a nuestro alrededor en pleno siglo XXI. Qu? pasar?a si un d?a descubrieras que, en realidad, eres hijo de un dios griego que debe cumplir una misi?n secreta? Pues eso es lo que le sucede a Percy Jackson, que a partir de ese momento se dispone a vivir los acontecimientos m?s emocionantes de su vida. Expulsado de seis colegios, Percy padece dislexia y dificultades para concentrarse, o al menos ?sa es la versi?n oficial. Objeto de burlas por inventarse historias fant?sticas, ni siquiera ?l mismo acaba de cre?rselas hasta el d?a que los dioses del Olimpo le revelan la verdad: Percy es nada menos que un semidi?s, es decir, el hijo de un dios y una mortal. Y como tal ha de descubrir qui?n ha robado el rayo de Zeus y as? evitar que estalle una guerra entre los dioses. Para cumplir la misi?n contar? con la ayuda de sus amigos Grover, un joven s?tiro, y Annabeth, hija de Atenea. ** M?s vendidos del The New York Times y Publishers Weekly . ** Llevada a la gran pantalla a cargo de Chris Columbus, director de las dos primeras entregas de «Harry Potter . ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Twelve-year-old Percy Jackson is about to be kicked out of boarding school...again. No matter how hard he tries, he can't seem to stay out of trouble. But can he really be expected to stand by and watch while a bully picks on his scrawny best friend? Or not defend himself against his pre-algebra teacher when she turns into a monster and tries to kill him? Of course, no one believes Percy about the monster incident; he's not even sure he believes himself. Until the Minotaur chases him to summer camp. Suddenly, mythical creatures seem to be walking straight out of the pages of Percy's Greek mythology textbook and into his life. The gods of Mount Olympus, he's coming to realize, are very much alive in the 21st-century. And worse, he's angered a few of them: Zeus's master lightning bolt has been stolen, and Percy is the prime suspect. Now Percy has just 10 days to find and return Zeus's stolen property, and bring peace to a warring Mount Olympus. On a daring road trip from their summer camp in New York to the gates of the Underworld in Los Angeles, Percy and his friends, one a satyr and the other the demigod daughter of Athena, will face a host of enemies determined to stop them. To succeed in his quest, Percy will have to do more than catch the true thief: he must come to terms with the father who abandoned him; solve the riddle of the Oracle, which warns him of failure and betrayal by a friend; and unravel a treachery more powerful than the gods themselves.