Revenge of the Scorpion King

The Mummy Chronicles #1

by Dave Wolverton, Stephen Sommers

It's 1937 and twelve-year-old Alex O'Connel is living in Egypt, looking for adventure. He doesn't expect the Scorpion King to rise from the dead in search of revenge!
Includes three pages of fun facts about ancient Egypt!

Genres: Adventure, Fantasy, Historical, Fiction, Egypt

135 pages, Paperback

First published April 3, 2001

About the author

Dave Wolverton (born 1957) is a science fiction author who also goes under the pseudonym David Farland for his fantasy works. He currently lives in St. George, Utah with his wife and five children.

(Wikipedia entry: Dave Wolverton)

Reviews

[Clayton Barr]

The Mummy Chronicles is a series of four young readers books about Alex O'Connell, set during 1937-38 when he was 12 years old. The later novels in the series are better, but this one does a good job of establishing the Egyptian setting and introducing the 12-year old version of Alex, whom we quickly see is rather like young Indiana Jones. But the resurrection of the Scorpion King is brief and disappointing. My full study of the book is available on PopApostle: http://mummy.popapostle.com/html/epis...