Title: Egypt Game
Author: Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Publisher: Antheneum
Books for Young Readers Year: 2009, c 1967, 1995
ISBN: 978-1-4169-9051-2
Genre: Fiction/Realistic
This book
is for Ages: 8-12
Awards: Newbery Honor, ALA Notable Book
AR Points: 7.0
Subjects/Themes:
Egypt/Mystery/Make Believe
Plot
Summary: 11-year-old April Hall has just moved from
Hollywood to Northern California to live with her grandmother while her mother
and singer Dorthea Dawn is on tour. She
meets Melanie and her younger brother, Marshall who live downstairs. Together they start the Egypt Game, an
intricate game with rituals to honor ancient Egyptian gods, in the back lot of the
Professor’s A-Z Antique Shop. Soon they
are joined in the game by Elizabeth, Toby and Ken. When a young girl is murderer from their neighborhood,
April and the other children must be on guard.
Lots of people are wondering who the murderer is. Could it be the Professor? Soon strange things are happening in the
game. Will the police capture the
murderer before another child is killed?
Review: This book is especially good for sixth
graders in California studying ancient Egypt.
April has a hard time trusting
the new people in her life. She desperately
wants to believe that her mother is going to bring her back to Hollywood. But
she is able to escape those concerns in the Egypt game. The Egypt game reminds me that imagination,
books, movies, television and games are all quick escapes for our daily
worries.
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this book you may also like: Beyond
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