The Kane Chronicles: The Serpent's Shadow Award-winning author by Rick Riordan (author) (US edition)

Carter and Sadie Kane, descendants of the magical House of Life, are in pretty big trouble. Despite their bravest efforts, Apophis, the giant snake of Chaos, is still threatening to plunge the world into eternal darkness. Now the Kane kids must do something no magician has ever managed – defeat Apophis himself. No pressure there! As they battle the forces of Chaos, their only hope lies in an ancient spell – but its magic has been lost for millennia. Will they find the serpent’s shadow, or be led to their deaths in the depths of the Underworld?

“Storytelling that will get readers hooked.” Philip Ardagh

“Witty and inspired. Gripping, touching and deliciously satirical.” Times

“Sure to become a classic.” Sunday Express

Product Details

Format

Hardback

ISBN

9781423140573

Lexile measure

690L

Condition

New

US edition

Author/Illustrator

Rick Riordan

Rick Riordan is a teacher and a writer, and has won many awards for his mystery novels for adults. He says that the idea for Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief first came to him while he was teaching Greek mythology at middle school in San Francisco. But rumour has it that Camp Half Blood actually exists, and Rick spends his summers there recording the adventures of young demigods. Some believe that, to avoid a mass panic among the mortal population, he was forced to swear on the River Styx to present Percy Jackson’s story as fiction. Rick lives in Texas (apart from his summers on Half Blood Hill) with his wife and two sons.