I love to read. My husband struggles to read but can appreciate the importance of reading and so tries to read- a little. So as a reader myself I would read to the boys a lot when they were younger and I read to them different genres. Everything and anything. When reading to them my husband and I would really get into it, using different character voices and sometimes acting out the pages; a real circus. Thinking of it now I miss those days and we stopped accidentally without realising it. So when we stopped reading to them they didn’t really pick it up for themselves; that is despite us offering so many different titles.
So whilst I fretted {as you do} B1 picked up a book at school one day; The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan. It was the book that turned my teen boy into a reader. Oh my goodness it made me happy. It’s the first in the Heros of Olympus Series, which is also part of the Percy Jackson tribe. There are five in the series and he has just finished the last one. The book involves demigods, action and just a little bit of teenage love so I think it would be perfect for boys and girls.
An expert of the book tells it like this…
When Jason, Piper and Leo crash land at Camp Half-Blood, they have no idea what to expect. Apparently, this is the only safe place for children of the Greek gods – despite the monsters roaming the woods and demigods practising archery with flaming arrows and explosives.
But rumours of a terrible curse – and a missing hero – are flying around camp. It seems Jason, Piper and Leo are the chosen ones to embark on a terrifying new quest, which they must complete by the winter solstice. In just four days’ time.
Can the trio succeed on this deadly mission – and what must they sacrifice in order to survive?
B1 has also started reading other books, which is a great sign to me but it was such a great delight for me to say to him can you put your book away for dinner or see him getting off his bus with his head in his book. For someone that has had his struggles with learning, I firmly believe that this has been part of the reason (amongst other reasons) he has gone from being a D student to C, B and A’s.
Regardless of you can buy from all good book stores or from here, and here.
xx Deb
