Heroes of Olympus series: Lost Hero by Rick Riordan

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.

Rick Riordan, the best-selling author of the Percy Jackson series, pumps up the action and suspense in The Lost Hero, the first book in The Heroes of Olympus series.  Fans of demi-gods, prophesies, and quests will be left breathless--and panting for Book Two.
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They're not joking. Jason and friends are thrown into action without knowing anything, right away! The pace never slows down and surprises lurk in every chapter. True to his past writing Rick Riordan has done it again, another series shaping up to be a great read! This book is better for kids who are good readers, who have studied some mythology or read the Percy Jackson books (but not necessary) and are 10 and older. Younger teens will enjoy this book series as well. Written with action and personality, you are going to love these new characters and be rooting for their success as if it were your own.  I have the second one on hold and the third one on PRE hold as it is not out yet. Can't wait to read them all.

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My 15 year old and I have now read three of these. Great books! We are eager to read the fourth one when it comes out next fall. Too long to wait! They held our attention well. Not to mention when we went to see an exhibit on Pompeii we actually had an understanding of Greek and Roman society and gods and godesses, etc. that we would not have had. Good education couched in a fiction book. Double good.

Thanks for another great series Rick Riordan!