Mr Marzola's Classroom Blog

Wednesday, November 22, 2006

The Egypt Book Review by Amy Fan

11-year-old April Hall is sent by her mother Dorthea who lives in Hollywood to go live with her grandmother. When she first meets Melanie Ross, she's not sure if they could be friends. But when they find out they both like imagining up stories, the real adventure begins!
At first its just playing with paper dolls, then later on, it is the discovery of Egypt! After re-aranging the old storage yard of the Professor's A-Z Antiques/Curios/Used Merchandise Shop, the find themselves the perfect place for the Egypt Game.
As the game continues on, they find an abundance of things to improove Egypt. They find things for the altars and costumes, even more members!
Buit then, strange this start happening to the game. Is it just them, or did they really come in contact with the gods?

This realistic fiction book is an excellent book. Even though the wording is a bit difficult to understand, anybody 4th grade and up. This is perhaps one of the Full of humor and mystery, you just can't stop until you've reached the end!