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Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Egypt Game Book review

Title: The Egypt Game
Author: Zilpha K. Snyder
genre: Realistic Fiction
By : Samantha K. Hudson
Rate: 8/8

This book begins with two girls named Melanie and April who start a game called the Egypt Game with Melanesia brother Marshall. Soon after they gain another player someone is murdered. Soon after the murder two more players join the game comes to it's max but, as it comes to it's max strange things start happens.....

More About the Players:
April is a girl who is staying ant her grandma's for awhile but doesn't really fit in.
Melanie is someone who lives in the same small town that Aprils staying in and becomes friends with April.
Marshall is Melanesia brother, is quite, and will not let go of a stuffed toy for the life of him.
Pofessor is a strange man...
The other 3 players Find out for your self!!!!
Thought is was a very good book for many reasons. 1 because it relates to my favorite subject... Egypt, 2 because all the characters are cunningly brought into the story, 3 they run on a carefully planned and exiting plot, and 4 it's just plain out well written!