BookWormin'

The mythology of Egypt is explored in Rick Riordan's Kane Chronicles . The Red Pyramid, The Throne of Fire, and The Serpent's Shadow are focused on Carter and Sadie Kane, brother and sister who are descendants of pharaohs.  Carter can host the Egyptian god Horus, while Sadie hosts Isis.  Throughout these books, I learned the names of many different Egyptian idols, as well as pharaohs and archeology fun facts (for example, Carter is named after Howard Carter, the man who discovered King Tut's tomb).  I even learned some hieroglyphs, such as the ankh, which stands for life, as well as several other words.   Photo of a page, found on pinterest.com, and Ankh found on google.com My History course started in Egypt, and while this is the one series I did not reread this year while reviewing Egyptology, I kept the Kane Chronicles in mind. Another interesting thing about these books is that Rick Riordan also wrote three side books, in which Carter and Sadie meet an

Technically, the Percy Jackson books largely take place in New York, with some quests across the United States, but overall, they're all about Ancient Greece.  While these books aren't the best for specific history questions, like who led the Spartans at the Battle of Thermopylae (answer: King Leonidas I), or who Pericles was (answer: a famous leader of the Athenians), they were pretty helpful for me as I studied Ancient Greece in middle school and as I went over the Greek chapters in my History of Western Civilizations course this year. Percy Jackson is a demigod, a child of a Greek god and a mortal.  Obviously then, this series focuses on Greek mythology.  After reading Percy Jackson and the Olympians , I can name all twelve Olympians and that the Greeks named them patrons of, I'm fairly good at the mythological family tree (from Ouranos to Kronos to Zeus, etc.), and Greek mythology is one of my best subjects, which was really cool when I had a whole chapter and test on