592 pages | Paperback

Jason has a problem.He doesnt remember anything before waking up on a school bus holding hands with a girl. Apparently shes his girlfriend Piper, his best friend is a kid named Leo, and theyre all students in the Wilderness School, a boarding school for bad kids. What he did to end up here, Jason has no ideaexcept that everything seems very wrong.

Piper has a secret.Her father has been missing for three days, and her vivid nightmares reveal that hes in terrible danger. Now her boyfriend doesnt 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. Whats troubling is the curse everyone keeps talking about, and that a campers gone missing. Weirdest of all, his bunkmates insist they are allincluding Leorelated to agod.

Rick Riordan, the best-selling author of the Percy Jackson series, pumps up the action and suspense inThe 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.