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  Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief  By Krishna Jaswal I’m sure many of you have heard about the book Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief. Many kids read it in elementary or middle school. For me personally, Percy Jackson was my childhood. I remember being introduced to the book right before COVID hit and I read all the books throughout the pandemic. I’m sure some of you have also heard about the new Percy Jackson series on Disney+. In this blog, I will dive a little deeper into both the book and the show as well as the differences between them! Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief is the first book in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series . The book is set in the United States (they go on an adventure so the city or state does change often) and involves lots of Greek mythology. The book starts with Percy, a 12-year-old boy who starts to learn more about himself. Percy finds out that his father is Poseidon, one of the big gods of Greek mythology. To make things e...

Now I’m not usually one for realistic-fiction crime, but my brother has been persistently nagging me to read The Missing American for several years now, so here we are. The Missing American by Kwei Quartey takes place in Ghana in 2016 and mainly follows 26-year-old Emma Djan’s aspirations of becoming a homicide detective in the Ghana Police Service (GPS), like her deceased father, Superintendent Emmanuel Djan. The novel shows the points of view of other characters throughout the book as well. Unfortunately, Emma Djan is contained in the mundane Commercial Crimes Unit (CCU) dealing with bland cases of trespass, document forgery, theft, etc. Emma takes her shot at asking her direct boss to be moved to the Homicide Division and train to be a detective. Her boss, Inspector Kuma, takes great offense to her audacious request but Emma is later called up to Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP) Layrea’s office to discuss Constable Djan’s career. A sympathetic DCOP Laryea tells her that the ...