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__The Kane Chronicles: The Red Pyramid__ by Rick Riordan Reviewed by Kiana May 12, 2011 (If you're thinking this is the same author who wrote Percy Jackson and the Olympians, you're correct). The genre of __The Red Pyramid__ is: Adventure, Legend and Myths. The topics of this book is: Families, Social Structures and Supernatural. Fourteen-year-old Carter and his twelve-year-old sister, Sadie, have been seperated for six years since there mothers death from a mysterious explosion. Carter has been traveling the world with his father the Egyptologist, Dr. Julius Kane while Sadie lives with her grandparents in London. Its only twice a year that they get to see one another, during the winter and then during the summer. One night, on Christimas Eve, their father takes them to Egyptian Collection at the British Museum to "set things right" he says. What could that possible mean? They first stop at Cleopatra's Needle and it disturbed their father. But what's even more terrifying is the fact that Carter and Sadie think they're hallucinating because they see two ghotly, white people; one female and one male. When they reached the museum, they go very deep into the museum by themselves. They stop in a room that contains the Rosetta Stone. Dr. Julius Kane studies it and something terrible happens when he destroys the stone. Five Egyptian gods are released along with a guy in fiery armor that sentences their dad into a golden sacophagus and threatens to rule with chaos. When the gods were released, two gods concealed part of themselves inside Carter and Sadie. They both end up going with mysterious man called Amos who happens to be their uncle. They began to learn the secrets of Egyptian magic and parts of their past that involves their mother. And Sadie's cat, Muffin is magical (the cat was a parting gift six years ago after mother's death). Now its up to Sadie and Carter to try to save their father, stop the fiery guy with armor and save the U.S from being ruled by chaos. home Cobra Reviews of Page-Turners