The Red Pyramid
core novel 2010 The Riordanverse
Record
| First published | 2010 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.10 (434,293 ratings, collected 2026-09-14) |
| Page count | 528 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781423113386 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
Carter Kane, of the 2010 first Kane Chronicles novel, has spent years traveling the world with his Egyptologist father, Julius, while his younger sister Sadie has grown up mostly separated from them, living in London with their grandparents. The siblings are reunited for a rare Christmas Eve visit to the British Museum, where Julius performs a secret ritual meant to summon the god Osiris. Instead, the spell goes disastrously wrong, unleashing the god Set along with Horus, Isis, and Nephthys, and Set seizes Julius and vanishes with him, vowing to use his power to remake the world in chaos. Taken in by their uncle Amos, Carter and Sadie learn their family descends from a line of pharaohs and magicians tied to the ancient House of Life, and that they have unwittingly become hosts to Horus and Isis.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Riordanverse
- Series: The Kane Chronicles core; position 1 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Rick Riordan
Awards (verified)
- Children's Choice Book Awards (Book of the Year, Grades 5-6), 2011: won
- Red House Children's Book Award (Older Readers), 2011: nominated; Shortlisted; did not win.
- School Library Journal Best Book, 2010: honor; Best-of-year list recognition, not a competitive juried win.
Notes
- From the series record (The Kane Chronicles): Clean linear trilogy, Egyptian-mythology continuity, dual first-person narrators (Carter and Sadie Kane) throughout.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series The Kane Chronicles: position 1 of 3: next The Throne of Fire (2011)
- Internal chronology, within The Riordanverse: position 2 of 25: previous The Lightning Thief (2005) · next The Sword of Summer (2015)
Sources
- Wikipedia: The Kane Chronicles
- Wikipedia: The Red Pyramid (award mentions)
- rickriordan.com, The Kane Chronicles
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