In the summer months, just before the start of sixth grade, April Hall arrives in Berkeley, California. She has come from glamorous Hollywood and her mother is an actress and singer. April wears false eyelashes, quirky clothing, and a strange hairstyle. Bookish eleven-year-old Melanie Ross has never seen such a character. However, she is charged with welcoming April to the apartment complex, and she soon finds that under April’s façade lies a potential friend. Although the two girls seem an unlikely pair, they soon realize that they both have fertile imaginations and a passion for books, and the lore of ancient Egypt.One day, the girls discover a loose plank in the fence that divides the alleyway from the storage yard next to an antique store run by an ominous character known as the Professor. When April and Melanie and her little brother, Marshall, enter into this derelict space, the girls’ imagination runs rampant. There they find a bust of Nefertiti and the magic of the Egypt Game begins. From the beginning, the Egypt Game was unlike any of the playacting the girls had done all summer. Soon, three more kids from school join them. When these “Egyptians” devise the idea of writing to the oracle, Thoth, they are surprised when their messages are answered in an unknown hand. Have April, Melanie, and company raised the gods of ancient Egypt? Events turn even more sinister when a neighborhood child turns up murdered. Who or what is to blame? Magic? Perhaps it is the mysterious Professor? Read The Egypt Game to find out. —Jacqueline Danziger-Russell
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