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The Lost Hero

Rick Riordan (2010)

SubgenreYA Fantasy
Age groupMiddle Grade 8-12
Content ratingPG
Pages556 (Chunky (400-600))
Setting
CSM age10
Goodreads4.12/5 (10263)

Content levels

ViolenceModerate
Sexual contentNone
LanguageMild

Heroine archetypes

Heroine with Secret

Protagonist archetypes

Multiple POVsChosen OneFellowship

Synopsis

Jason has a problem. He doesn’t remember anything before waking up on a school bus holding hands with a girl. Apparently she’s his girlfriend Piper, his best friend is a kid named Leo, and they’re all students in the Wilderness School, a boarding school for “bad kids.” What he did to end up here, Jason has no idea―except that everything seems very wrong. Piper has a secret. Her father has been missing for three days, and her vivid nightmares reveal that he’s in terrible danger. Now her boyfriend doesn’t recognize her, and when a freak storm and strange creatures attack during a school field trip, she, Jason, and Leo are whisked away to someplace called Camp Half-Blood. What is going on? Leo has a way with tools. His new cabin at Camp Half-Blood is filled with them. Seriously, the place beats Wilderness School hands down, with its weapons training, monsters, and fine-looking girls. What’s troubling is the curse everyone keeps talking about, and that a camper’s gone missing. Weirdest of all, his bunkmates insist they are all―including Leo―related to a god.

Tags

Greek MythologyUrban FantasyAdventure FantasyQuest NarrativeDemigod Fiction