When author Rick Riordan concluded his wildly popular “Percy Jackson” series last year, his young fans wondered just what he’d write next. The answer arrives in bookstores Tuesday, as ...

The similarities between “Percy Jackson & the Olympians” and “The Red Pyramid” are numerous, but if “The Red Pyramid” comes off as derivative, at least Riordan is deriving from himself.

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Once again, Riordan masterfully meshes modern life with mythology ...

He hit pay dirt with the Percy Jackson series — it's about an ... in our latest book for NPR's Backseat Book Club. It's The Red Pyramid from Rick Riordan's Kane Chronicles.

The Red Pyramid is sure to hold the interest of young readers with a penchant for The Mummy. "You're a half-blood, too? Shhh! He's a Cyclops!" In the second Percy Jackson book, the young hero ...

Swap Egyptian mythology for Percy Jackson’s Greek gods and you’ve got the best part of this—an ancient history lesson seamlessly unfurled in a rip-roaring adventure. Told in alternating ...

Riordan, best known as the author of the “Percy Jackson and the Olympians ... The first film, based on 2010’s “The Red Pyramid,” was penned by “Star Trek: Prodigy” writer Diandra ...

"Percy Jackson and the Olympians" doesn't have a history of lightning strikes on the screen. Two critically panned film adaptations of Rick Riordan's best-selling kids' books series − "The ...

And so too does veteran junior fiction author Rick Riordan, who has followed up his excellent and mega-successful Percy Jackson series with the equally wonderful The Red Pyramid, the first book in ...