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The Egypt Game
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Game: Book 1

The Egypt Game (1967) (edit title/settings)

by Zilpha Keatley Snyder (Author) (edit contributors)

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When eleven-year-old April and her friend Melanie invent a game about ancient Egypt, strange things start happening, and the girls worry that their game has gone too far!!!!

Summary edit see section history

A group of children find a building to play "Egypt" in, but must stop when a local child is murdered. The "Professor" who helps the children and has been watching their game.

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NOT LONG AGO IN A LARGE UNIVERSITY TOWN IN California, on a street called Orchard Avenue, a strange old man ran a dusty shabby store.

Table of Contents edit see section history

1. The Discovery of Egypt
2.Enter April
3. Enter Melanie- and Marshall
4. The Egypt Girls
5.The Evil God and the Secret Spy
6. Eyelashes and Ceremony
7. Neferbeth
8.Prisoners of Fear
9. Summoned by the Mighty Ones
10.The Return to Egypt
11.Egypt Invaded
12. Elizabethan Diplomacy
13.Hierglyphics
14. The Ceremony for the Dead
15. The Oracle of Thoth
16. The Oracle Speaks
17. Where is Security?
18. Confession and Confusion
19. Fear Strikes
20. The Hero
21. Gains and Losses
22. Christmas Keys

Series & Lists edit see section history

This is book 1 of 2 in Game. (standard series)

Followed by The Gypsy Game.

This book is in Newbery Honor Roll. (community list)

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Zilpha Keatley Snyder (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Antheneum Publishers
Country: United States of America
Publication Date: 1967
ISBN: 978-0808553038
Page Count: 240

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Reading Level: Ages 9-12

I would encourage you to read this, it's a great book, with nothing like swear words or shootings or violence anywhere in the book.

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