Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters Paperback

Rick Riordan's second Percy Jackson novel carries the series further into Greek myth, following the demigod cast introduced in The Lightning Thief. The appeal of the sequence rests on how the ancient material is handled: gods, monsters and prophecies placed in a contemporary American setting and narrated by a teenager with a dry sense of humour. This Penguin UK paperback runs to 304 pages, and the suggested audience of roughly eleven to fourteen matches both the reading level and the jokes. Anyone who finished the first book will find the continuity picked up here without a summary chapter. The takeaway: • Second novel in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians sequence • Greek mythology retold through a modern first-person narrator • 304 pages in a Penguin UK paperback edition • Suggested for readers of around eleven to fourteen years Readers moving on from shorter middle-grade fiction, and teachers building a mythology shelf, can order this Penguin UK edition from Boipoka.