Re: [LM_NET] Review: YA novel: Rick Riordan's The Red Pyramid

[Christine Rayl <cjrayl@YAHOO.COM>]

I am currently reading it and am enjoying it quite a bit. I love the voice in the 
novel!I am disappointed that it is a bit more difficult than the Percy Jackson 
series and sadly, many of the 4th and 5th graders who have read the complete Percy 
series will struggle with this book. However, it is perfect for middle school! 
Riordan has not disappointed us.

Christine Rayl, Librarian
Bowie Elementary School
Grand Prairie ISD, TX

Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable. 

Augustine Birrell


--- On Wed, 5/26/10, Pamela Thompson <pthomp@SISD.NET> wrote:

> From: Pamela Thompson <pthomp@SISD.NET>
> Subject: [LM_NET] Review: YA  novel: Rick Riordan's The Red Pyramid
> To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
> Date: Wednesday, May 26, 2010, 3:57 PM
> The Red Pyramid ( Kane Chronicles,
> Book One)
> 
> by Rick Riordan.
> 
> Disney, Hyperion Books, 2010.
> 
> 516 pages.
> 
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> 
> Following on the heels of tremendous success with the Percy
> Jackson and the Olympians series, Rick Riordan takes on the
> Egyptian gods. Not quite as fun or popular as their Greek
> counterparts, the gods from Egypt are darker and meaner.
> They may become as popular as the Greeks in the capable
> hands of storyteller Riordan.
> 
> The Red Pyramid is a fun, non-stop adventure with
> tongue-in-cheek humor and puns. Riordan makes fun of many of
> the foreign sounding names, like Djehuti, whom the main
> character, Carter, pronounces "Ja-hooty." Titles of chapters
> are also part of the joke. Chapter 35, for instance, is
> titled "Men Ask For Directions (& Other Signs of the
> Apocalypse). There are funny characters like an orangutang
> who plays basketball and wears a Lakers jersey.
> 
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> 
> Carter and Sadie Kane are siblings whose parents are
> Egyptologists and who the kids learn later are descended
> from the original Pharoh families. The Kane children have
> special abilities like magic and are protected by a cat
> named Muffin, who turns out to be the ancient goddess Bast.
> Other gods help Carter and Sadie along the way, too. Hey,
> it's not easy saving the world!
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> The novel itself is dedicated "to all my librarian friends,
> champions of books..." Riordan remembers all the book talks
> and reviews fellow librarians have done in the past helping
> his books become best-sellers. For that, he is commended!
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> The Red Pyramid will excite those who read the Percy
> Jackson series. It, too, will be several
> installments--probably six books--and who knows, maybe a
> movie???
> 
> Recommended for YA collections grades 6-h.s. If you liked
> The Lightning Thief and its sequels, this book is for you!
> 
> Pamela Thompson, MLIS
> 
> 
> Library Media Specialist
> Col. John O. Ensor Middle School
> 13600 Ryderwood
> El Paso, TX
> 915-937-6018
> pthomp@sisd.net<mailto:pthomp@sisd.net>
> 
> visit my YA novel blog at http://booksbypamelathompson.blogspot.com/
> 
> 
> "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a
> dog is too dark to read." --Groucho Marx
> 
> "In the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians
> provide us with floaties and teach us how to swim." --
> Linton Weeks, Washington Post
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