<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>.&nbsp;<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. &nbsp;Fans of demi-gods, prophesies, and quests will be left breathless--and panting for Book Two.