Helpful Score: 4
A great paean to children's powers of imagination and obsession, but the understory about child abduction and murder is a bit too scary, strange, and grotesque for my tastes. The author has an ability to make the reader feel like they are playing the Egypt game themselves; participating in somber ceremonies in a dirt alleyway and creating Egyptian costumes from plastic jugs is as much fun for us as it is for the book's protagonists!
Helpful Score: 1
Good older elementary school age novel - besides being a rousing adventure looks at the difference between imagination and reality.
Helpful Score: 1
my sons (read in 6th grade) liked this book
Helpful Score: 1
My daughter read this book when she was 10. She loved it, a nice, quick read.
Helpful Score: 1
My eleven year old son really enjoyed this book
