Brian's Egypt Game Book Review

Title: The Egypt Game
By: Zilpha Keatly Snyder
Rating: 2 out of 5
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Reviewed By: Brian Seymour

In the Egypt Game, 12-year-old April Hall comes to live with her grandmother, Caroline, at the Casa Rosada while her mother is away on tour. Later she meets a new friend, Melanie Ross. As they are hanging out together, they discover the Professor's storage yard, and decide to build a new land, a land they could call their own, a land called Egypt. As the game goes on there are six Egyptians instead of two. Together they make up nicknames, and heiroglyphs, and oracles. Just trying to keep a secret. But what if it wasn't a secret? What if someone was hiding in the shadows... watching their every move.

I give this book a 2 out of 5 because I thought it gave too much away. For example, in one chapter it says "That was the day a cat snook in through Elizabeth's window and killed her bird, Petey." The next chapter was all about that. I think Zilpha should have held the suspense for that chapter. Also nothing good happened until chapter 5 or 7 then nothing good happened until the last 3 chapters. The characters in this book are April, Melanie, Toby, Marshall, Ken, and Elizabeth. I recommend this book to young adults who love Egypt and adventure.