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