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.

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.

If you have in your acquaintance a person between the ages of 8 and 14, you've probably seen them reading The Lightning Thief or another book in the Percy ... The Red Pyramid, introduces brother ...

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 ...

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 ...