They’re magicians, even if attempts to summon swords sometimes result in butter knives. Once again, Riordan masterfully meshes modern life with mythology and history, reinvigorating dusty artifacts such as the Rosetta stone and revitalizing ancient Egyptian story lines.Īs Sadie and Carter teleport from London and Cairo to Paris and Phoenix and shape-shift into various animals, they come to understand they aren’t ordinary kids. Their mission: to find their archaeologist father, who accidentally blew up the British Museum and, as a result, was absorbed through the museum’s floor. Here there are two protagonists instead of one - siblings Sadie and Carter Kane - and their powers hail from gods who are Egyptian rather than Greek.

With “The Red Pyramid,” Riordan has done just that. Why mess with a successful formula, especially if you can use it to make your new story just as fast-paced and intriguing as its predecessor? If this sounds like “Percy Jackson & the Olympians,” the author’s five-book, New York Times bestseller fantasy series - and source of the film “The Lightning Thief” - that’s no coincidence. There are battles with evil forces and a looming deadline by which the child must complete a mission, lest society descend into chaos. A parent disappears, prompting introductions to ancient characters and travels to otherworldly places. To stop him, the siblings embark on a dangerous journey across the globe - a quest that brings them ever closer to the truth about their family, and their links to a secret order that has existed since the time of the pharaohs.In “The Red Pyramid,” the first book in “The Kane Chronicles,” Rick Riordan’s new series for middle readers, a child has godlike powers but doesn’t know it until strange things begin to unfold. Soon, Sadie and Carter discover that the gods of Egypt are waking, and the worst of them-Set has his sights on the Kanes. Instead, he unleashes the Egyptian god Set, who banishes him to oblivion and forces the children to flee for their lives. Kane brings the siblings together for a 'research experiment' at the British Museum, where he hopes to set things right for his family. While Sadie has lived with her grandparents in London, her brother has traveled the world with their father, the brilliant Egyptologist, Dr. Annotation: If you haven't yet read the Kane Chronicles, Rick Riordan's action-adventure trilogy based on Ancient Egyptian mythology, don't miss this paperback edition with new cover art and a Percy Jackson-Kane Chronicles crossover story, 'The Son of Sobek.'Since their mother's death, Carter and Sadie have become near strangers.Subject: Fables, Folklore and Fairy Tales.Author: Riordan, RickGriffin, Matt (ILT).

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