If young people years ago had fun with the detective stories of Five Friends and the wizarding adventures of Harry Potter, today young people are fascinated by Percy Jackson and Kostja Veselka.
Best novels for young adults:
Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Series I
Percy Jackson he is a book and film hero. The book was written by the famous writer Rick Riordan, and then a movie was made based on the book. The books are about Percy Jackson and his assignments at Camp Half-Blood, as well as Greek mythology as it relates to today's modern world. Fans of Percy Jackson books are called Demigods (half-bloods).
In the first book, The Lightning Thief, the king of the gods, Zeus, accuses Percy of stealing the most powerful weapon, lightning (because he is Poseidon's son). Percy is then helped by his friends Grover Underwood and Annabeth Chase to find the lightning bolt and its thief. In another book Sea of Monsters someone poisons Thalia's tree and Percy embarks on a perilous journey through the Sea of Monsters, which is now located in the Bermuda Triangle. He goes on an expedition to find the golden fleece to heal Thalia's tree and to find his friend Grover, who has been in mortal danger for some time. In the third book Curse of the Titans, Annabeth is kidnapped and forced to carry the weight of the sky instead of the Titan Atlas. Also, the titan stole Artemis, the goddess of the hunt. Percy now has to save Artemis and Annabeth with the help of his friends in an impossibly short time. In the fourth part Battle in the Labyrinth Percy, Annabeth, Grover, and Percy's half-brother Cyclops Tyson go to Daedalus' Labyrinth to try to stop Kronos from invading the camp. Everything gets complicated when they find out that they have to use something very special to make their way through the labyrinth more safely... In the last part, The last Olympian, it is predicted that Kronos will attack Olympus. The gods fight Kronos' bait, Typhon, and Olympus is protected only by Camp Half-Blood campers and a small group of Artemis's tentacles.
Percy Jackson and the Heroes of Olympus - Series II.
Anyone who has already read the first collection of stories about Percy must have been waiting hard for his new adventures. In a new series of books, he and his friends from the Roman camp will try to prevent the awakening of Mother Earth, Gaia, who wants to destroy the Olympian gods and our civilization. Find out where Percy went, learn about the Roman camp, take a flying ship to the Mediterranean in a battle against time and save Nico di Angelo from the giants, through the monster-filled underworld of Hades, make your way to the gates of death and in the final battle, discover who all the while helping the enemy. And who will sacrifice himself so that Gaia doesn't swallow us all into darkness?
Kostja Veselko - series
The detective Kostje Veselka is reminiscent of detectives from noir films with his intelligence, (self) irony and elegant work with a hat and a long raincoat. But he is also significantly different from them - he is a skeleton with magical powers! After the death of her uncle, a horror writer, Kostja is "inherited" by the bright, reclusive teenager Stephanie. They soon become an invincible pair of detectives, constantly engaging in heated dialogue and saving each other's skins while chasing villains from the magical Dublin underworld.
Once They Were Magical - The Series
Cressida Cowell, author of the bestseller How to Train Your Dragon, inspires us with a new series where magic and spells are intertwined! Želja and Xar must make their way into the hidden dungeons of the Vojščak fortress. Something that has been sleeping for hundreds of years is awakening there. Will they be able to defeat the co-king and the hungry monster worm-paw with their combined strength? Will the spell be strong enough to banish the curse of the primeval forest? Or will the cops rule forever?
