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Riordan, Rick, author.

The red pyramid / Rick Riordan.

First edition.

New York : Disney/Hyperion, an imprint of Disney Book Group, [2010]

©2010

516 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Brilliant Egyptologist Dr. Julius Kane accidentally unleashes the Egyptian god Set, who banishes the doctor to oblivion and forces his two children to embark on a dangerous journey, bringing them closer to the truth about their family and its links to a secret order that has existed since the time of the pharaohs.

Grades 4-9 (School Library Journal).

Middle School.

650 Lexile.

The Kane chronicles ; bk. 1

Riordan, Rick. Kane chronicles ; bk. 1.

Seth (Egyptian deity) -- Juvenile fiction.

Brothers and sisters -- Juvenile fiction.

Voyages and travels -- Juvenile fiction.

Family secrets -- Juvenile fiction.

Secret societies -- Juvenile fiction.

Adventure and adventurers -- Juvenile fiction.

Mythology, Egyptian -- Juvenile fiction.

Magic -- Juvenile fiction.

Secrets -- Juvenile fiction.

Egypt -- Juvenile fiction.

Adventure fiction.

Accelerated Reader 4.5.

Reading Counts! 3.7.

Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.5 18 137173.

School Library Journal Best Books, 2010.

A Junior Library Guild selection

1. A death at the needle -- 2. An explosion for Christmas -- 3. Imprisoned with my cat -- 4. Kidnapped by a not-so-stranger -- 5. We meet the monkey -- 6. Breakfast with a crocodile -- 7. I drop a little man on his head -- 8. Muffin plays with knives -- 10. Bast goes green -- 11. We meet the human flametthrower -- 12. A jump through the hourglass -- 13. I face the killer turkey -- 14. A french guy almost kills us -- 15. A godly birthday party -- 16. How Zia lost her eyebrows -- 17. A bad trip to Paris -- 18. When fruit bats go bad -- 19. A picnic in the sky -- 20. I visit the star-spangled goddess -- 21. Aunt kitty to the rescue -- 22. Leroy meets the locker of doom -- 23. Professor Thoth's final exam -- 24. I blow up some blue suede shoes -- 25. We win an all-expenses-paid trip to death -- 26. Aboard the Egyptian queen -- 27. A demon with free samples -- 28. I have a date with the god of toilet paper -- 29. Zia sets a rendezvous -- 30. Bast keeps a promise -- 31. I deliver a love note -- 32. The placeof crosses -- 33. We go into the Salsa business -- 34. Doughboy gives us a ride -- 35. Men ask for directions (and other signs of the Apocalypse) -- 36. Our family is vaporized -- 37. Leroy gets his revenge -- 38. The house is in the house -- 39. Zia tells me a secret -- 40. I ruin a rather important spell -- 41. We stop the recording for now.

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