In this exciting second installment of the three-book series, Carter and Sadie, offspring of the brilliant Egyptologist Dr. Julius Kane, embark on a worldwide search for the Book of Ra, but the House of Life and the gods of chaos are determined to stop them.

1. Fun with Spontaneous Combustion 1

2. We Tame a Seven-Thousand-Pound Hummingbird 16

3. The Ice Cream Man Plots Our Death 30

4. A Birthday Invitation to Armageddon 47

5. I Learn to Really Hate Dung Beetles 68

6. A Birdbath Almost Kills Me 85

7. A Gift from the Dog-headed Boy 99

8. Major Delays at Waterloo Station (We Apologize for the Giant Baboon)114

9. We Get a Vertically Challenged Tour of Russia 141

10. An Old Red Friend Comes to Visit 157

11. Carter Does Something Incredibly Stupid (and No One Is Surprised) 176

12. I Master the Fine Art of Name-Calling 192

13. I Get a Demon Up My Nose 220

14. At the Tomb of Zia Rashid 237

15. Camels Are Evil... 250

16.…But Not as Evil as Romans 264

17. Menshikov Hires a Happy Death Squad 293

18. Gambling on Doomsday Eve 313

19. The Revenge of Bullwinkle the Moose God 331

20. We Visit the House of the Helpful Hippo 351

21. We Buy Some Time 372

22. Friends in the Strangest Places 399

23. We Throw a Wild House Party 418

24. I Make an Impossible Promise 429