The Red Pyramid
Siblings Carter and Sadie Kane wake the Egyptian gods and must stop Set from destroying the world.
2,682-word summary · 12 min read
Tag: middle grade
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The Graveyard Book
A toddler escapes the murder of his family and is raised by ghosts in a graveyard, learning from the dead while the killer who hunts him waits outside.
2,786-word summary · 12 min read
Number the Stars
Ten year old Annemarie helps her Jewish best friend escape occupied Copenhagen.
2,032-word summary · 9 min read
Artemis Fowl
Twelve-year-old crime heir Artemis Fowl kidnaps fairy officer Holly Short for gold, triggering a siege at Fowl Manor with time-stops, trolls, and a shifting…
2,692-word summary · 12 min read
The Son of Neptune
Amnesiac Percy wakes at Camp Jupiter and quests to Alaska with Hazel and Frank to free Thanatos.
2,107-word summary · 9 min read
The Mark of Athena
Seven demigods sail for Rome where Annabeth must follow the Mark to the Athena Parthenos alone.
2,031-word summary · 9 min read
The Titan's Curse
Percy joins a winter quest to save Annabeth and Artemis with Thalia, Grover, Bianca and Zoe, facing Atlas and Luke under a hard Oracle prophecy on Mount…
2,229-word summary · 10 min read
The Sea of Monsters
Percy returns for a second summer as Camp Half-Blood loses its borders, Tyson is claimed as his brother, and the Golden Fleece waits past the Sea of Monsters.
2,056-word summary · 9 min read
The Last Olympian
Percy Jackson turns sixteen as Kronos marches on Manhattan, forcing Camp Half-Blood into a final stand for Olympus beside Annabeth as the old prophecy demands…
2,564-word summary · 11 min read
The Battle of the Labyrinth
Percy and Annabeth enter the shifting Labyrinth with Rachel Dare to stop Luke and Kronos from invading Camp Half-Blood.
2,924-word summary · 13 min read
The Lightning Thief
Rick Riordan's The Lightning Thief retold: Percy Jackson, Camp Half-Blood, the stolen bolt, and the road trip to the Underworld.
2,581-word summary · 11 min read
Holes
Stanley Yelnats digs holes at Camp Green Lake while a broken promise, a buried outlaw, and a boy named Zero close in around him.
2,456-word summary · 11 min read