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The Lightning Thief
Ryan Brandon T-2 9/19/09
The Lightning Thief
My book, The Lightning Thief, was written by Rick Riordan. It is a fantasy/adventure fiction. The publishing company is Miramax books, and the date of publication is 2005. The cost of the book is $7.99, and there are 376 pages. The main character’s name is Percy. He goes to boarding school in New York, and has been kicked out of several schools before. One day, he and his class are on a field trip, and during that trip his math teacher turns into a monster and tries to kill him, but Percy kills her instead. When he gets back to his class, they say that the monster Percy just killed never existed. He realizes something is wrong, and finds out that he and his friend, Grover, are going
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