Betrayed by Theseus, Ariadne’s journey is one of resilience ... The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan The Lightning Thief, the first book in Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians ...

Fourteen young Athenians are being selected for the journey to Crete. Theseus - son of King Aegeus - is determined to be one of them. Theseus persuades his father to allow him to go to Crete ...