The Egypt Game

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Summary: The Egypt Game
Review: When Melanie and April meet for the first time they are not sure that they will like each other. Soon thay find out that they both like Egypt. They find a deserted yard and set up a club with six people. One day one of the players wrote a question on a peice of paper. The next day, they found an answer! One night when April was walking to the club area, someone attacked her.The "professor" saved her and told her that he wrote the answer to the question! The next day, the club area was boarded up and locked, so no one went in.

I think that this book is very fun to read. It is interesting how the "professor" sneaks in the story and saves one of the characters. I think that this book has good descrption. I can almost feel the characters' heat coming from them when they try to know who wrote the answer. This book is like my life. Like Melanie, I didn't the "new girl" in the school will be my friend.

My favorite part of the story is when the "professor" to April that he wrote the answer. I never guessed that is was him. They believed that is was the gods that did that. I never guessed that it was him. At first, I thought that one of the club members did it as a joke. I still can't believe that "professor" did it!

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Summary: The Egypt Game
Review: Melanie and April had just met and were not sure if they would like each other. Soon enough they found out that they both loved thing that had to do with Egypt. One day they find a deserted yard and decided to set that up as the "land of Egypt." They hold ceremonies and work out a code every day. soon there were six Egyptians in their secret land. One day member wrote down a question. The next day the answer was on the back! the players wanted to know who was doing that they found out that is was the Profesor, unexpectely. the next day the "Land of Egypt" was gone.
I think this book was exciting to read. I really liked the part when they couldn't figure out who wrote them a message on the back of thier question. I never thought the Professor was prt of this. I theink the character must have been suprised when he told them that. I liked their idea of the Eygptian land. the ending really surprised me.

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Summary: I read this book 16 years ago and still remember it!!!
Review: I read this book when I was a child. I am sitting here thinking of all of my favorite books that I read as a child and looking them up. I am fascinated to see so many mixed emotions over this book. I read it for an english class book report in 6th grade and I loved the book. HINT CHILDREN: It doesn't feel like work when you pick something that you really enjoy to read to do your reports on!! I guess it had enough of an impact on me to even remember it!! It stirs the imagination. I am just trying to relive some of my favorite childhood books again and get ideas for great books to share with my own child. Great books leave such an impact. I hope one day the children of today will remember their favorite books!! It is time for me to reread this book and read The Gypsy Game. I didn't even know about that book.

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Summary: A fantastic mystery story!
Review: This book begins with April moving in with Melanie, and they begin to play The Egypt Game in the Professor's back yard. They call the backyard the temple and they have two altars, one to Isis and one to Set. Eventually there are six children involved. It is exciting because you don't know who is the murderer, though the police suspect the professor. So this is a mystery story that is really gripping.

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Summary: THIS BOOK WAS ALRIGHT
Review: I like this book because of all its exploring.All the people in this book were very close to being friends.The best part of this book was when they found out who was putting all those messages in the bucket.The main character in the story the most was the old man who ran an antique shop.

At the end they found out who was putting all those messages in the bucket. Since some people don't know about the ending the ending was very exciting the found out who was putting all those messages in there. It was the little girl of the group who was putting them in there.She was a sneaky little girl.

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Summary: The Egypt Game Is Fabulous!
Review: This book was absolutely fabulous. It talks about a young girl named April who comes to live in a town in CA while her mom is touring around the country. She meets a girl name Melanie and her younger brother named Marshall. Melanie and April are fascinated with Egyptian history and love everything to do with Egypt. Soon they find an old storage yard behind an old antique shop. This is now called Egypt. This is where the Egypt Game takes place. Soon there comes three more kids who come to join the Egypt Game. The Egyptians do many ceremonies to the gods,( including a ceremony for the dead which is basically a funeral for one of the girl's dead parakeet). Soon there is a homicide and everyone is forced to stay indoors, but a few weeks later the kids are allowed to play outside again. ...

This book combines a great story of suspense, some of the Egyptian rituals, and so on. The author really lets you get to know the characters of this book. I highly recommend this book!!!

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Summary: Hot off the Ancient Egyptain press!
Review: The Egypt Game is about a group of kids that find a storage lot from a Curio Shop that is vacant. They set up the world of ancient Egypt; they make costumes, heirgylphic alphabet, create names for themselves, made headdresses, and acted out ceremonies and rituals based on their knowledge of reading books and studying Egypt. Because of a murder in the town the game had to be stopped; the group helped to solve the murder. This would be a good book for Egypt lovers. This book is filled with imagination.

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Summary: The Egypt Game
Review: I got this book for my 8 year old son to read and as always, pre-read the first chapter before getting it. I got completely ingrossed in the book within the first few minutes and put off laundry and housekeeping to finish it (something I don't normally do with kids books)! The writing style is fantastic! I'm very picky about what my son reads at this point in his life because I want him to read books that are interesting enough to grab and hold his attention and not turn him away from reading for fun. This book is definately one of those!

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Summary: A Catalyst for the Imagination
Review: I wouldn't be surprised if readers finish this book and don't turn back to the TV, but instead put together make-believe worlds of their own--not necessarily Egyptian ones.

This book may not have transported me back to the real Ancient Egypt, but it did take me into the kind of world only a child's imagination can create. It contains makeshift altars and special names, made-up rituals and homemade costumes, "modified" hieroglyphics and even a new way to walk. Anyone who has ever invented his or her own special world, out of fascination or out of boredom, will understand the appeal of "The Egypt Game".

While reading, I often thought that Zilpha Keatley Snyder had more fun writing about the made-up rituals than the characters had performing them. Not only are they fun, they are more or less well-researched, which is only right, as two of her characters are enthusiastic readers who pay attention to details. Throughout the story, Snyder's sense of humor shines through, whether she is making one character sprinkle ashes into his hair or making two other characters refrain from doing so, "because to a girl even the death of a pharaoh isn't worth a dirty head."

Except for April Hall and Melanie Ross--and the Professor, of course--the characters are not very complex. They become part of Egypt not because they have something vital to add to the plot, but because they make the game more fun. Only a few of them go through a change that is apparent at the end of the story. However, their personalities are varied enough to contribute to the small conflicts in each chapter (this is a semi-episodic novel), and to let readers have different favorite characters.

The book has its darker parts, however. Part of the story involves the murder of some small children, and the murderer remains at large for most of the novel. (Even I found this extreme. The story could have been just as fun and mysterious without it.) Also, the idol worship and divination aspects of some of the games may be disturbing because they are very realistic and taken very seriously by the children. As for the Professor, his role in the story is so ambiguous at the beginning that only experienced readers will be able to tell, by the third chapter, whether the Professor is spooky or friendly, a bad guy or one of the good guys.

In spite of the drawbacks, I found "The Egypt Game" truly enjoyable and fun to read. I only wish that children had more books that stress the wonder of discovery, imagination, and good, old-fashioned play.

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Summary: The Egypt Game is Cool
Review: This was a neat book! It is about six kids who find an old abandoned shed and pretend that it is Egypt. They make Egyptian costumes, learn to write in hieroglyphs, study ancient Egyptian gods and goddesses, etc. I seriously doubt that this book (or Harry Potter books, for that matter) would make anyone who did not have serious mental illnesses make animal sacrifices or such. If you liked this book, watch out for the sequel!