FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Percy Jackson is a twelve-year-old boy who has been to a string of schools and struggles with dyslexia and ADHD. Percy's life is changed forever when he learns his true identity as a demi-god and discovers a secret wThe New York Times - Elizabeth DevereauxThe action, never leisurely in any of the five books in the series, runs at a frantic pace heremonsters pop out with a rapidity that becomes almost predictable, except that they are so enjoyably hair-raising, and that Riordan has such clever ways of dispatching them…Like the stories in which they re rooted, Riordan's Percy Jackson novels speak to more than one audience, and in more than one key.