The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

This book is very interesting because it brings greek mythology and contemporary fiction together. Percy Jackson lives in New York City with his mom in an apartment. He is constantly getting into trouble. He doesnt try to, but it just seems to follow him. He's also dislexic, and his only friend is a boy named Grover who will eat anything. So he's very happy to find that there is a reason for all this, and he's not just some messed up kid everyone else thinks he is. He is, in fact, the son of a Greek God, and his friend Grover is a Satyr- half boy, half goat. He's dyslexic because his mind is built to read ancient Greek, and trouble follows him, because the world is kind of against him... or at least the mythological world is. They all want to destroy him, and when they fail, they tend to get him into trouble. So thus Percy goes on a great adventure to get to camp half-blood, to meet other Greek God's children, and to find out exactly where he belongs. I definitely give this book five stars. This is the first book in the series Percy Jackson and the Olympians.