Percy Jackson And The Olympians: The Last Olympian

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During this marking period, I have read seven amazing books. Through reading these books, I noticed prominent themes and character development. The first book I read was Percy Jackson and the Olympians : The Last Olympian. In this book, Percy Jackson, son of Poseidon, Annabeth Chase, daughter of Athena and a camp of greek demigods from Camp Half-Blood is in dire need to defeat the evil Titan Kronos before he destroys New York, the Gods, and eventually the world with his evil ideas. Long before this book though, there was a prophecy given by an oracle that stated that upon their sixteenth birthday, a child of the Big-Three (Poseidon, Zeus and Hades) would decide that would preserve or destroy the Olympians and the world. As a child of the big

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