The target audience appears to be children that are middle school age and up. I believe this book would be great for all families with teen or preteen boys and girls. This book is good for foster and adoptive families because it is engaging, full of action, and doesn’t shy away from hard topics. Percy and his friends deal with the loss, awkward romance relationships, jealousy, and trust issues throughout this book. These topics like many others are prevalent with foster and adopted pre-teens and teenagers.
In this five book series this one might be my absolute favorite. The book is full of action and mystery, but also breaks down a lot of emotional and physical feelings our foster and adopted readers deal with everyday. There is danger lurking around every corner and it is consistently building the story to the big finale of book five! I think it might be impossible to finish this book and not want to jump directly into the next book right away. The author does a great job in convincing you to be connected with each character effortlessly and you feel like you are also walking along the labyrinth with our group of heroes!
Keep close attention to the relationship that is developing between Percy and Annabeth. Their story and feelings are becoming entwined and appear to possibly becoming romantic. The key here would be Percy and his ability to read between the lines with…
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About the Author: Steve Madole
I am an adoptive dad of three boys living near Grand Rapids, MI with my wife, our cats and dog. We also fostered many other children in the last 5 years! I have done many trainings with the Dr. Karen Purvis Institute and try to keep up on different trauma training’s monthly. My whole family nerds out on comic books, video games, movies and regular books! We often read a lot of the same comics and books which can lead to some awesome conversations!
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