The Egypt Game, Zilpha Keatley Snyder
The Egypt Game, Zilpha Keatley Snyder
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The Egypt Game

Author: Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Narrator: Alyssa Bresnahan

Unabridged: 5 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/14/2008


Synopsis

The first time Melanie Ross meets April Hall, she’s not sure they have anything in common. But she soon discovers that they both love anything to do with ancient Egypt. When they stumble upon a deserted storage yard, Melanie and April decide it’s the perfect spot for the Egypt Game.
Before long there are six Egyptians, and they all meet to wear costumes, hold ceremonies, and work on their secret code. Everyone thinks it’s just a game until strange things start happening. Has the Egypt Game gone too far?

ALA Newbery Honor Book • ALA Notable Children's Books • Horn Book Fanfare • SLJ Best of the Best Books • George G. Stone Center Recognition Of Merit • Lewis Carroll Shelf Award

Reviews

Goodreads review by Larissa

I already had a sort of Egypt fixation when this book was read to me for the first time in 3rd grade. But this book took that fixation to a whole new level. For years, I read it over and over again. It...affected me. Because it implied that I wasn't the only dorky, bespectacled youth out there pouri......more

Goodreads review by Calista

I loved this as a kid. Zilpha was one of my favorite authors in the 80s. There was John Bellairs, Judy Blume and Zilpha Synder. Back then I couldn't even say her name. Headless Cupid was my favorite book back then. This was another great of hers. A group of neighborhood children find a building with......more