The Egypt Game
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...
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This classic 1968 Newbery Honor Book, The Egypt Game, is available in a brand new paperback edition!Publishers WeeklyTwo girls get involved in an elaborate ``Egypt game,'' a fantasy game that soon leads to strange, unexplainable happenings. PW called the characters in Snyder's Newbery Honor winner ``true originals.'' (8-12)
An Excerpt from The Egypt Game \ All through the month of August, Melanie and April were together almost\ every day. They played the paper-families game and other games, both\ in the Rosses' apartment and in Caroline's. They took Marshall for\ walks and to the park while Mrs. Ross was gone to her class, and almost\ every day they went to the library. It was in the library in August\ that the seeds were planted that grew into the Egypt Game in September\ in the Professor's deserted yard.\ It all started when April found a new book about Egypt, an especially\ interesting one about the life of a young pharaoh. She passed it on\ to Melanie, and with it a lot of interest in all sorts of ancient\ stuff. Melanie was soon as fascinated by the valley of the Nile as\ April had been. Before long, with the help of a sympathetic librarian,\ they had found and read just about everything the library had to offer\ on Egypt--both fact and fiction.\ They read about Egypt in the library during the day, and at home in\ the evening, and in bed late at night when they were supposed to be\ asleep. Then in the mornings while they helped each other with their\ chores they discussed the things they had found out. In a very short\ time they had accumulated all sorts of fascinating facts about tombs\ and temples, pharaohs and pyramids, mummies and monoliths, and dozens\ of other exotic topics. They decided that the Egyptians couldn't have\ been more interesting if they had done it on purpose. Everything,\ from their love of beauty and mystery, to their fascinating habit\ of getting married when they were only eleven years old, made good\ stuff to talk about. By the end of the month, April and Melanie were\ beginning work on their own alphabet of hieroglyphics for writing\ secret messages, and at the library they were beginning to be called\ the Egypt Girls.\
\ Publishers Weekly\ - Publisher's Weekly\ Two girls get involved in an elaborate ``Egypt game,'' a fantasy game that soon leads to strange, unexplainable happenings. PW called the characters in Snyder's Newbery Honor winner ``true originals.'' 8-12\ \
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