The Percy Jackson novels are a series of adventure fiction books written in the young adult bracket and fantasy genre by American author Rick Riordan. Its main character is a twelve year old boy named Percy Jackson. Percy has ADHD and dyslexia. One day when driving home with his mother from school, they decide to go to the beach in Montauk. Here Percy loses his mother in a series of events and ends up discovering that he is the son of Poseidon and in fact a demigod. The series has spent more than two hundred consecutive weeks on the New York Times Children�s Books Bestseller List since October of 2011.