Monday, February 25, 2008

The Egypt Game

by Zilpha Keatley Snyder 444

The Egypt Game is about a girl named April. Her mother works in Hollywood and does not have time to take care of April. She sends her on a bus with some money to live with her grandmother in another part of California. April does not have any friends until her grandmother tells her that there is a girl named Melanie that lives in their building. April and Melanie become really good friends.

One day April goes into an antiques shop. The people in the town are really suspicious about the Professor, the old man who owns the sotre, and never go in. Melanie and April decide to go to the library and take a few books out about Egypt. After they read a few books about Egypt they decide that Egypt is really interesting. They check more and more books out until they have read all of the books about Egypt in the library. Melanie and April have a brilliant idea, they could create their own Egypt in the back of the Professor’s shop. With Melanie’s little brother Marshal they get to work without telling their parents. About a week or two later ,a girl about a year younger than them moves in. Her name is Elizabeth and they do not really have a choice but to include her in Egypt. So they do.

Everything in Egypt was going well until something very scary happened. A little girl wasmurdered by someone in the neighborhood. As a result the kids are not allowed to go to school by themselves and are not allowed to go trick-or-treating by themselves and worst of all, can not go anywhere after school by themselves. This meant they could not go to Egypt until everything was settled. The policemen were going crazy trying to find the murderer. And I’m not going to tell you who the murderer is!!

Electra W.

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