The Lost Hero (Heroes of Olympus, Book 1)
<strong>Jason has a problem.</strong> 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.<br><br><b>Piper has a secret.</b> 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? <br><br><b>Leo has a way with tools. </b>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 <i>god</i>. <br><br>Rick Riordan, the best-selling author of the Percy Jackson series, pumps up the action and suspense in <i>The Lost Hero</i>, 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.