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 on May 16, 2010

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 on February 26, 2018

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

Goodreads review by Hilary on June 01, 2019

April goes to live with Grandma, her mum has met someone new and is going away for a bit. April finds is it hard being deserted by her mum but gradually with the help of Caroline her Grandmother and making a new friend of Elizabeth who lives in an apartment in her block she begins to enjoy life and......more

Goodreads review by Michael on August 03, 2008

A Newbury Honor Book? Really? While this was an interesting story, I found the children to not behave in the manner of actual children - speaking wisely beyond their years and with adult emotions - emotions we might like them to have, but that for the most part, they do not. Interesting to note that......more

Goodreads review by Lars on September 01, 2010

There are so many things to like about this extraordinary book that I had somehow missed previously. I'm actually not sure if I had read it completely through before, probably because it is another novel that I consider over-assigned in schools. 'The Egypt Game' also carries the burden of being dated......more