If you are looking for a great series to engage your teen reader, give the Percy Jackson series of books by Rick Riordan a try. Here are 5 reasons why this series of books have both kids and parents stamp of approval.
1. An Engaging and Fulfilling Read for Teens and Parents
Foremost the Percy Jackson books are engaging-not only for teens but for adults. I'm in my mid thirties and the series had me hooked so that I had to read one after the other until I crossed the finish line with The Last Olympian. The last two were particularly hard to put down as the series came closer to its ultimate conclusion.
2. Wonderful Teen Role Models
Percy and his friends are great role models for adventurous teens who are somewhat rebellious but who retain a sense of ethics and responsibility. They protect each other and have their eye on a greater goal-like saving the world!
3. Wonderful Parent-Teen Relationship
Percy's only parent is his single mother (as his father is the God, Poseidon) and she has faith in Percy to do what he feels is right. Percy contacts her when facing a challenge and she offers advice but trusts he knows the right thing to do. This kind of mother-son relationship is a welcome contribution to popular teen literature.
4. Powerful Storytelling That Gets Better With Each Book
There is a point in book three, The Titan's Curse, when the villain is revealed that hooked me onto the rest of the series and I read the last two books within 48 hours (they just kept getting better). The reveal fit so perfectly into the story and all the clues being left in the first half of the book finally made sense. The ability to do that and not lose either the reader's interest or the plot threads of the story is indeed the work of a skilled writer.
5. Exposure to Mythological Archetypes
Obviously the series references Greek Mythology, as Percy Jackson and his friends at Camp Half-Blood all have a Greek God as a parent. For the casual reader, these references invariably incite interest in the classic mythological stories of Ancient Greece. The more readers learn about the myths, the more they can read into the story and the characters motivations. By imbuing his story with these ancient archetypes Rick Riordan has given depth to his story and applied these old myths into a modern context, giving both texts a longer life on the shelves.
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