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Persuasive Book -The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan

Explosions everywhere, monsters running loose, machines breaking. That's all in a days work for the characters in The Lost Hero. You should include this to your ICCA book list for 2011 because it has a ton of action, it leaves you hanging and wanting more, and the author's creative and teaches you things. Here more details in the following paragraphs.

First of all, action is around every corner. The novel starts out fast with action with the reader questioning. It says in the first chapter of the book "Lightning crackled overhead. The wind picked up with vengeance." Then at the end it ends with a bang of action.

In addition, every chapter leaves you hanging and wanting more. The author says "Good question, Piper. Come on I'll give you a tour. We need to talk." at the end of the 3rd chapter. Since the chapters did that I read the book in 6 days. For instance characters answered questions and the chapter ended. So it really left you hanging and wanting more after every chapter.

Finally, the author helps you understand Greek and Roman Mythology by using modern day and he also did other things that helped the story and made it better. In the book the author describes monsters, people, etc. The author will describe a man and you get a weird feeling of disgust or happiness or even repulsion. He also helps you understand Greek and Roman mythology by mixing it in modern day, two characters can be battling monsters in San Francisco or L.A. The author does make you question because you could have questions after every chapter saying... Why did he do that? or Is he really thinking that? maybe even What? The author does this throughout the story.

So please ad The Heroes of Olympus The Lost Hero will be a great book to ad to your ICCA booklist because the author is already a bestseller author and it'll be significant for you to ad The Lost Hero to your list.