Pyramid Scheme: Volume 3

by Mike Hamel

MIKE HAMEL'S MATTERHORN, THE BRAVE EXPLOITS, RISK, AND INSPIRATION Matterhorn the Brave is an exciting new juvenile fiction series about four young children who are recruited to keep an eye on the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0899578357
• ISBN13: 9780899578354
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Living Ink Books
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 10 to 13 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 8

Customer Reviews

Excellent reader......

An excellent installment to the series. My son originally received #1 for his 9th birthday. He was so excited reading it, that I purchased the rest of the series. He would tell me about what he read, it peaked my interest so much that I had to read them. Have read all 6 and would highly recommend it. Would be excellent to read aloud to younger children or just together time. I hope Mike Hamel is not finished with this series.

Exciting Juvenile Fantasy

"Pyramid Scheme is the third book in the Matterhorn the Brave Series. Mike Hamel continues to stir the imagination of his young readers with exploits, risks, inspiration, and information. Matterhorn, the Baron, Jewel, and Nate are on another exciting mission in time-travel and history. Saved from near death by a stranger named Elok they are taken to the Valley of the Kings. They are called on to confront the heretics, an evil group set on rewriting history. The first attempt of the heretics is the murder of King Tut. The young quartet soon find themselves in an adventure that takes them to the pyramids of Egypt, the City of the Dead, the courts of Pharaoh's Palace, the secret tunnels beneath Karnak Temple and down the Nile to the Great Pyramid. Hamel has the remarkable gift of being able to transport the reader into another time convincing them of the possibility of time-travel situations, alternate realities, traveler's cubes, time maps, and magical swords. Mike is a natural story teller. He understands his young audience, and has amazing insight into the past, the present and the future. His creative imagination and flare for description draw the reader into the story whether it is in the pyramids of Egypt, the computer capabilities of today, or the "time-files" of the future. I particularly enjoyed the visual images created by some of his descriptive phrases: "The tale of her disgrace would make its way through the market faster than water through gills", or "The supporting pillars were tattooed with hieroglyphics as high up as he could see," and "The bloke's been busier than a centipede in a shoe store..." "Pyramid Scheme" and the Matterhorn the Brave series provide young readers with the opportunity to stretch their mind by using their imagination, to vicariously connect with the realms of space and time. Mike Hamel is a master story teller.