{"id":27025,"date":"2012-12-20T06:01:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T06:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=27025"},"modified":"2017-02-10T16:31:51","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T16:31:51","slug":"in-red-pyramid-kid-heroes-take-on-ancient-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=27025","title":{"rendered":"In ‘Red Pyramid,’ Kid Heroes Take On Ancient Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"

In ‘Red Pyramid,’ Kid Heroes Take On Ancient Egypt<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Backseat Bookclub<\/a>
\nAll Things Considered<\/a>
\nNational Public Radio<\/a>
\n2012-12-19<\/p>\n

Melissa Block<\/a><\/strong>, Host<\/p>\n

Robert Siegel<\/a><\/strong>, Senior Host<\/p>\n

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If there was a recipe for the best-selling writer Rick Riordan<\/a>, it would go something like this \u2014 start with a love of storytelling, fold in more than a decade of teaching middle school English, combine that with two sons of his own who don’t quite share their dad’s love of literature, and marinate all of that with a deep passion for mythology.<\/p>\n

Riordan has sold tens of millions of kids’ books. He hit pay dirt with the Percy Jackson series \u2014 it’s about an everyday kid who has superhero powers because he’s the secret son of Poseidon, the Greek god of the sea.<\/p>\n

Egyptian gods reign supreme in our latest book for NPR’s Backseat Book Club. It’s The Red Pyramid<\/a><\/em> from Rick Riordan’s Kane Chronicles<\/a><\/em>. It tells the story of a brother and sister \u2014 Carter and Sadie Kane \u2014 who have lived apart most of their lives. One Christmas Eve, their father brings them both together for a trip to the British Museum, and a terrible, magical accident happens that unleashes the gods of ancient Egypt into the modern world.<\/p>\n

Carter and Sadie learn that they are descended from ancient Egyptian magicians. This means they are the only ones who have the magic that might be able to put the gods back where they belong \u2014 before the world spirals out of control.<\/p>\n

Riordan is an author who knows his audience \u2014 and that has influenced his writing. “I imagine myself in front of my own class,” he tells NPR’s Michele Norris<\/a>. “I don’t teach anymore, but I can still clearly see fifth period after lunch \u2014 that’s a real tough time to teach. And I tried to imagine writing a story that would appeal to those kids \u2014 even when they’re tired, even when they’re bouncing off the walls. … If I could find a way to tell a story that would resonate with them, then I had something going.”<\/p>\n

Carter and Sadie are biracial characters, but Riordan doesn’t dwell on this in the book. He is more interested in the idea of kids being caught between two worlds, a concept to which he says his readers can relate…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>. Read the transcript here<\/a>. Download the interview here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In ‘Red Pyramid,’ Kid Heroes Take On Ancient Egypt Backseat Bookclub All Things Considered National Public Radio 2012-12-19 Melissa Block, Host Robert Siegel, Senior Host If there was a recipe for the best-selling writer Rick Riordan, it would go something like this \u2014 start with a love of storytelling, fold in more than a decade […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,12,2850,5,8,20],"tags":[2342,13130,1791,11698,2309,2833,13129,5075],"class_list":["post-27025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-articles","category-audio","category-book-reviews","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-all-things-considered","tag-backseat-bookclub","tag-egypt","tag-melissa-block","tag-national-public-radio","tag-npr","tag-rick-riordan","tag-robert-siegel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51481,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27025\/revisions\/51481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}