The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
Chapter 10: I Ruin a Perfectly Good Bus
The beginning of Percy’s quest goes about as well as expected considering his status as a wanted criminal/suspect.
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Chapter 9: I Am Offered a Quest
After spending about four chapters explaining Percy’s new reality and how this world works, it’s finally time for Percy to leave the dwindling safety of Camp Half-Blood and try to fix other people’s problems that quickly become his problems, like a true Greek hero.
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Chapter 8: We Capture a Flag
Before we get to the series staple war game, there’s still a bit more exposition left in the first half of the chapter.
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Chapter 7: My Dinner Goes Up in Smoke
This is the third straight chapter of (possibly) necessary exposition. Luckily, this chapter is less showing off Camp Half-Blood and more laying down the basics of the book’s plot.
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Chapter 6: I Become Supreme Lord of the Bathroom
This is the first real glimpse of what would be the staple setting of the Percy Jackson series–there isn’t a single book that doesn’t have Camp Half-Blood in it, even if they’re just passing through. Because it’s just a glimpse, most of what Percy sees and learns is on a surface level with an obvious under-layer hidden away.
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Chapter 5: I Play Pinochle with a Horse
This is the necessary exposition chapter. Here, Percy learns about Greek mythology being real and is introduced to a couple of new characters and reintroduced to one old character.
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Chapter 4: My Mother Teaches Me Bullfighting
Since most of this chapter is fighting a Minotaur, there isn’t much to talk about here, but I’m gonna talk anyway.
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Chapter 3: Grover Unexpectedly Loses His Pants
First thing’s first, Sally Jackson is a saint, or at least as close to one as possible. That is an irrefutable fact.
Now, this chapter is mostly about Percy and his relationship with his family, both born and gained through an unfortunately somewhat-necessary marriage.
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Chapter 2: Three Old Ladies Knit the Socks of Death
The second chapter returns Percy to his stressful yet mundane life as a normal, completely human, Yancy student struggling to keep his grades up. Only this time, Percy’s dealing with the increasingly frustrating fact that something is being kept from him.
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Chapter 1: I Accidentally Vaporize My Pre-Algebra Teacher
This is a fantastic first chapter.
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Revisiting Fiction 