{"id":2066,"date":"2013-10-23T09:33:30","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T09:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=2066"},"modified":"2015-03-31T00:14:04","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T00:14:04","slug":"the-lost-hero-by-rick-riordan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=2066","title":{"rendered":"The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I think this story is a great creative twist on the whole Percy Jackson and the Olympians<\/em> series and an awesome way to get kids to compare and contrast the Greek and Roman gods.\u00a0 People who haven\u2019t read the other series, which began with The Lightning Thief<\/em>, can probably even just start with this spin-off series because Riordan did a great job including snippets of back-story about important people and events to catch people up (or to refresh the memories of people who did read them).<\/p>\n

In this story, Jason wakes up on a school bus with no memory of his past or knowledge of the people he\u2019s with.\u00a0 The girl who\u2019s holding his hand?\u00a0 She says she\u2019s his girlfriend, but he doesn\u2019t remember anything about her.\u00a0 He is also purportedly best friends with a guy named Leo but doesn\u2019t remember him either.\u00a0 Jason has no idea where they are or where they are going.\u00a0 All he knows is that his name is Jason, he is apparently a student at Wilderness School (a school for juvenile delinquents), and something is not quite right about the teacher who is supervising their field trip.\u00a0 As readers quickly surmise, Jason is a half-blood like Percy Jackson.\u00a0 But, unlike Percy Jackson, Jason has a natural tendency to refer to the gods by their Roman names\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I think this story is a great creative twist on the whole Percy Jackson and the Olympians series and an awesome way to get kids to compare and contrast the Greek and Roman gods.\u00a0 People who haven\u2019t read the other series, which began with The Lightning Thief, can probably even just start with this spin-off … Continue reading The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-children","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-chrissie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}