The Lightning Thief
Percy, expelled from six schools for being unable to control his temper, learns the truth from his mother that his father is the Greek god Poseidon, and is sent to Camp Half Blood where he is befriended by a satyr and the demigod daughter of Athena who join him in a journey to the Underworld to retrieve Zeus's lightning bolt and prevent a catastrophic war.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 717
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 740
subjects: greek mythology, camps, friendship, father-son relationship, poseidon (greek deity), jackson, percy (fictitious character), gods, voyages and travels, mythology, greek, fathers and sons, audiobooks, zeus (greek deity), hades (greek deity), children's audiobooks, boys, dyslexics, fantasy fiction, adventure fiction, jackson, percy (fictional character), gods and goddesses, jackson, percy, poseidon, hades, zeus, large type books, fantasy [X], fantasy fiction, large type books [X], zeus (greek deity), reading counts!
The Burning Maze
The Greek god Apollo, cast down to earth as the ungifted human teenager Lester Papadopoulos, and his demigod friends must go through the Labyrinth to find the third emperor, and an Oracle who speaks in word puzzles, somewhere in the American Southwest.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 154
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 710
subjects: fantasy [X], greek mythology, apollo, gods, greek, mythology, greek, large type books [X], oracles, fantasy fiction, mythological fiction