5 reasons reading Percy Jackson series

If you join us for a great number of your teen readers, we try to give the series of Percy Jackson books by Rick Riordan. Here are five reasons that this series of books for children and parents label.

A first engaging and satisfying read for children and parents
In particular, the Percy Jackson books work not only for teenagers but also adults. I am in my mid-thirties and the series had me hooked, so I had read one by one, until I crossed the lineThe Last Olympian. The last two were particularly difficult to place, as the number was closer to its final conclusion.

According Wonderful Teen Role Models
Percy and his friends are great role models for young people who are adventurous, rebellious, but retains a sense of ethics and responsibility. They protect each other and have to save his eye on a target as big as the world!

Third Wonderful Teen Parent Connections
Percy is his single-parent mother (as hisFather is the God Poseidon) and to do the faith of Percy, which he feels is right. Percy contact when faced with a challenge, and offers advice, but rather build on, he knows how to do the right thing. This type of mother-child relationship is a welcome contribution to the popular teen literature.

Fourth powerful story, gets better with every book
There is a point in the third book The Titan's Curse, when the villain was dedicated to me on the rest of the series and I read thelast two books within 48 hours (had just better). The fit so perfectly revealed in history and all the notes left in the first half of the book finally made sense. The ability not to lose and is the reader's interest or lot is to the threads of history, in fact the work of an experienced writer.

Fifth Exposure to mythological archetypes
Obviously, references to Greek mythology shows, like Percy Jackson and his friends at Camp Half-Blood have all a greek God asParent. The reader surface, these statements should attract interest in classical mythological stories of ancient Greece. Readers more about the myths, the more you can read the story characters and motivations. has to be infused his story with these old archetypes Rick Riordan depth to its history and applied these old myths in a modern context, the two texts to live longer on the shelves.