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Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Books 4

The Battle of the Labyrinth is the fourth book in the Percy Jackson series and it is a very exciting book.  Percy, Grover, Annabeth and Tyson venture into the lair of the Minotuar searching for the creator of the Labyrinth, Daedalus.  During the search they run into monsters, goddesses and tricky decisions.  Percy battles one of his relatives, and the four friends have an unpleasant run-in with an old enemy named Luke.  Though there is many trials in the Labyrinth, the hardest one is navigating.  Unfortunately, Luke is after a way to navigate the maze too.  To top it all off, Nico DiAngelo, son of Hades, is summoning the dead and listening to the spirit of an old ghost out for revenge.  Percy and his friends must find Nico and help him, navigate the maze to find an old inventor who should have died hundreds of years ago, oh, and did I mention Grover is searching for a lost god called Pan?  Somewhere along the way the questers split up, which according to Annabeth is a really bad idea a

Percy Jackson and the Olympians

Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan is one of my favorite series!!  Based on Greek mythology, these books are about a boy who is half mortal, half Greek god.  In the first book, The Lightning Thief, Percy Jackson finds out the truth about his father after being taken to Camp Half-Blood, a safe place for demigods like him.  At the camp, he discovers that his Latin teacher, Mr. Brunner, is the centaur Chiron from the Greek stories he learned about.  The camp director is Dionysus, the god of wine, and his best friend Grover has hooves!!  After having his world turned upside down in addition to his mom disappearing in a golden shower of sparks, Percy is given a quest with Grover and a very experienced camper named Annabeth to retrieve Zeus' master bolt, which Percy supposedly stole.  So he gets a prophecy from a dead skeleton called the Oracle of Apollo, and heads out west towards Las Vegas.  Along the way he and his friends encounter lots of monsters, including Medusa.  An