Are you looking for a magical read? Do you crave a story that has both adventure and mystery? You will be thrilled by The Egypt Game. Meet April Hall. She’s new to Berkeley, California. When her actress mother decides to work on her career and sends April to live with her grandmother, April finds the change difficult. Although she brings her Hollywood pizzazz and frosty attitude with her, April’s “glamorous” exterior is just a façade.
However, Melanie Ross, a bright and book-smart girl, attempts to befriend April and is not so easily put off by her prickly manner. April doesn’t mean to make friends with Melanie, but she finds that they have more in common than she had thought possible. Both of them have wild imaginations and a passion for Egyptology.
One day, the girls discover a loose board in the fence between an alleyway and the neglected yard belonging to A-Z Antiques, run by the mysterious “Professor.” Inside the yard they find the bust of Queen Nefertiti. Secretly, they claim this space for themselves and create shrines to the ancient Egyptian gods—the “Egypt Game” is born. As time goes on, the game becomes more magical and increasingly dark. At around the same time, the body of a neighborhood girl is found. Intrigue blossoms when the girls and their friends start to leave messages at the makeshift altar to the oracle, Thoth...and receive answers! Has the oracle really been contacted, and does the girl’s death have anything to do with the Egypt Game? What of the creepy Professor who has been implicated as a suspect? Come to your local library to find out what happens to April, Melanie, and their friends in Zilpha Keatley Snyder’s spine-tingling novel, The Egypt Game.
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