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The Lost Hero
By Rick Riordan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itcTiQEVIo0
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NY Times Review
The Lost Hero is a companion book to the famous Percy Jackson and the Olympians series by Rick Riordon.
It introduces three new characters who are introduced to Camp Half Blood...
Plot
Jason is a boy who suffers from amnesia. He wakes up on a bus, sitting next to Piper, a girl claiming to be his girlfriend, and a boy, Leo Valdez, who claims to be his best friend. In a field trip to the Grand Canyon, storm spirits attack the three while their supervising teacher, Coach Gleeson Hedge, reveals himself to be a satyr, and fights for their lives. Jason surprises himself by using a sword disguised as a coin to fight off the spirits, and Coach Hedge is captured while defending them. At the height of the battle, two pegasi land next to them carrying strangers: Annabeth and a boy with a tattoo of a rainbow named Butch. Annabeth gets angry because she had a vision that she would find a clue to her missing boyfriend, Percy Jackson, at the Grand Canyon. She was told to look for the "one with the missing shoe." Jason, who has lost a shoe in the battle, has no memories of his own identity, let alone Percy Jackson's whereabouts. Jason, Piper and Leo are informed that they are demigods, (children of a god and a mortal) and are taken back to Camp-Half Blood where they meet other demigod children like themselves. There, Leo is revealed as a son of Hephaestus, Piper as a daughter of Aphrodite, and Jason as a son of Jupiter, (note the Roman, not Greek, nomenclature). After scarcely 24 hours learning about their previously hidden identities, the three receive an urgent quest to rescue Hera, queen of the gods, who was captured by unnamed forces. The three friends set off on the back of a giant robotic dragon Festus on a cross-country quest to save Hera and Piper's father from the clutches of giants and Khione. Their enemies are under orders from Gaea to reawaken her and overthrow the Olympic gods. On their way, Jason, Piper and Leo meet Boreas the North Wind (who lives in the Château Frontenac), a trio of cyclopes, the evil enchantress Medea, King Midas, a pack of werewolves and the very unhelpful Lord of the Winds Aeolus. In the end the heroes and their friends, the Hunters of Artemis, manage to save both and Piper's father and Hera, and temporarily stall Gaea's plans—but they will have to face the giants again. With part of his memory returned, Jason realizes that he is a hero from a Roman counterpart to Camp Half-Blood somewhere near San Francisco, and that Hera has switched him with the Greek hero Percy Jackson, who is now at the Roman camp with no memory of his life at Camp Half-Blood. The Roman and Greek demigods must unite to provide the prophesied group of seven heroes who will defeat the giants. Jason, Piper, Leo and Annabeth have to find the Roman camp and convince them to help.
Jason Grace: A 15 year-old son of Jupiter (or Zeus), and patron of Juno (or Hera) god of the sky, who lost his memory. He is the younger full brother of Thalia. He comes from the Roman version of Camp Half Blood and he is their replacement for Percy Jackson. He has a golden coin, with a man's face wreathed in laurels on one side and a battle axe on the other, that turns into a lance, or a double-edged sword made of Imperial Gold depending on the flip and vice verse. He can survive lightning that would kill twenty men, though his shoe is blasted to bits .
Piper McLean: She's Jason's demigod crush, and she is a daughter of Aphrodite who can charmspeak, a very rare talent that is used to charm most people into doing anything. When she was sent to Wilderness School, she unintentionally charmspoke a car dealer into giving her a BMW for free. She also becomes the head of her cabin after challenging Drew, the current leader. (Drew backs down from the duel) Her dad is a movie star, Tristan Mclean. She and Leo are fooled by the Mist before they discover Camp Half-Blood.
Leo Valdez: He's Jason's demigod best friend. He's very mischievous. He also likes to build things and is constantly busy with tools. He is the son of Hephaestus and a fire user; the first in hundreds of years. He is fireproof as well, fire can't hurt him, it is unknown if that skill is rare and comes will the power of wielding fire or if some children of Hephaestus, but not all, have that ability. He becomes leader of the Hephaestus cabin after his quest. He shows attachments to all his creations, mostly his dragon Festus . He also discovers Bunker 9, where the Hephaestus children worked on inventions during the American Civil war.
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