Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief is an entertaining story that makes Greek mythology feel modern and fun. The story follows Percy Jackson, who finds out that his father is a Greek god. Percy then must face a challenging quest alongside Athena’s daughter, Annabeth and Percy’s protector satyr, Grover.
The Death of Vivek Oji is a novel that features a small Nigerian village and a young mother opening her doors to find the dead body of her son, Vivek Oji, wrapped in fabric and missing his necklace. As she desperately searches for his necklace and the person who dropped him at her step, she is faced with the secrets that her son had kept hidden. Specifically, his close bond with his cousin, Osita, and his desire to grow his hair long and change his name to Nnemdi, a name that was his grandmother’s.
Nyxia follows Emmett, a 15-year-old who is selected along with nine other teens from all over the world to go to space to travel to a planet to mine an extremely valuable substance called Nyxia. The company that is sending these teens to space is Bable, and they are offering obscene amounts of money for participants. To Emmett, it is more important that Bable provides the best possible treatment for his mom who has cancer.
We’ll Always Have Summer is the third book of The Summer I Turned Pretty series and takes place two years after the second book and follows Belly Conklin, a freshman in college. Belly has been happily dating Jeremiah for two years, but that all falls apart when she learns that Jeremiah slept with another girl after they fought, and Belly broke up with him.
It’s Not Summer Without You is the second book of The Summer I Turned Pretty series and follows Belly Conklin, a 17-year-old girl. Belly’s having a bad summer, she isn’t going to Cousins Beach for the first time in her life due to the death of Susannah, someone who was a second mother to her. Belly cannot get over Conrad but believes that she has completely ruined the relationship. She believes she will never see the Fisher boys again until she gets a call from Jeremiah that Conrad is missing.
The Summer I Turned Pretty follows Belly Conklin, a 16-year-old girl who spends every summer at Cousin’s Beach with her family and the Fisher family. Belly wants to have her best summer yet and finally have her long-time crush Conrad Fisher notice her. Belly believes that this summer will be different from the rest because she is now older and has become “pretty”.
The Last Olympian is the final book in Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson & the Olympians series. The story follows Percy Jackson as he faces the ultimate showdown with the Titan lord Kronos, who is leading an assault on Mount Olympus. Percy, along with his demigod friends and allies, engages in a fierce battle to defend the gods, and prevent the destruction of Olympus. As the conflict unfolds, Percy discovers the significance of his destiny and the power of friendship.
Kingdom Keepers IV: Power Play by Ridley Pearson, is a fiction book in the fantasy genre in the series Kingdom Keepers. The book is about Finn Whiteman and his friends facing the Disney villains who are trying to take over the Disney parks. They have to go through many challenges, puzzles, and riddles to get to their main goal of defeating the Disney villains for this book.
After all the chaos of last summer, Percy finally gets a chance to be a normal middle school kid--at least, he can pretend he does. Along the way, Percy also discovers that one of normal human friends isn’t as normal as he may seem. Suddenly, while playing dodgeball, monsters appear and threaten Percy’s life. Annabeth comes to his rescue just in time, and they both make their way back to Camp Half-Blood only to find out that it is in trouble. Thalia’s tree, the one that holds the spirit of Zeus’ daughter, is ill.
The Lightning Thief is the first book in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, written by Rick Riordan. Percy Jackson is a 12-year-old boy who has never enjoyed school. He attends a boarding school, where he and his friend Grover often find themselves victims of bullies. Percy had always learned about Greek mythology and monsters in his Latin class. However, one day, during a school field trip, something seems to change. Percy experiences a strange encounter with his so-called math teacher.
