Zilpha keatley snyder the egypt game temple
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The Egypt Game/Chapter 14
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wowee Points of View: April Hall, Melanie Ross
Toby and Ken bring several objects to the storage yard to decorate the "temple", such as rubber insects, a dagger, an animal skull and a stuffed owl. The girls use them to decorate Set's altar. They name the owl Thoth after the bird-headed god of wisdom and writing.
Toby suggests that they should make up Egyptian names and symbols for themselves, and they end up with the following:
- Elizabeth is Nefertiti, named after a queen. Her symbol is a heart
- Melanie is Aida, named after the main character in Verdi's opera, a princess captive in Egypt. Her symbol is a bird
- Marshall is Pharaoh Marshamosis. His symbol is the double crown of Egypt
- Toby is Ramose, named after a famous wise man. His symbol is an owl head
- Ken is Horemheb, named after a pharaoh and commander. His symbol is a bloody sword
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The Game Series is the unofficial title given to two of Snyder'sbooks: The Egypt Game () and The nomad Game (). These two books follow the adventures of six children who invent and play different imaginative games.
The Egypt Game[]
- Main article: The Egypt Game
April entré, the daughter of a Hollywood singer is sent to live with her grandmother. She makes friends with Melanie Ross, a classmate who, like her, is fascinated by Ancient Egypt. Along with Melanie's little brother Marshall, they begin a sustained imaginative game about Ancient Egypt, researching actual Egyptian belief systems and practices, and create rituals intended to reproduce them more or less authentically. Their play area fryst vatten an abandoned storage yard behind an antique shop owned bygd a strange, reclusive man known as the Professor.
After the start of the new school year, three more kids join the "Egyptians"; however the game fryst vatten put on hold when a child is murdered in the area, and the kids are kept indo
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Summary and Study Guide
Overview
The Egypt Game () is a children’s book by Zilpha Keatley Snyder. It is the first title in a two-book set. The sequel is entitled The Gypsy Game (). Snyder was a prolific author of children’s and young adult adventure and fantasy novels. An elementary school teacher by profession, she wrote 46 books between and , passing away at the age of 87 in Like her protagonists in The Egypt Game, Snyder lived much of her life in northern California.
The Egypt Game won a Newbery Honor. Two other Snyder books, The Headless Cupid () and The Witches of Worm (), also won Newbery Honors. The Egypt Game is intended for readers aged eight to 11, in grades three to seven. It falls into the categories of Children’s Mystery, Detective & Spy Fiction, and Children’s Africa Books. This study guide and all its page citations are based on the Kindle edition of the novel.
The Egypt Game is set in a California college town whose name isn’t specifi