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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.
Is The Lost Hero appropriate for my child?
Suitable for most readers 10 and up.
Action-adventure with mythological monsters and peril appropriate for middle grade readers. Violence is fantasy-based (fighting monsters) without graphic detail; no romance beyond hand-holding; mild language.
What to know going in
This book has moderate violence, no sexual content, and mild language. Content notes include kidnapping, death of parent, and amnesia (see the full list above).
Who'll love this
Three teens with amnesia and secrets discover they're demigods and embark on a quest to rescue Piper's father while battling mythological monsters.