Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Birth date: January 01, 1927
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Huzzah! Here is finally a book that has improved on reading it as an adult. I remember reading this in 6th grade and being so disappointed in the story. I missed the point completely. Some things are scarier for adults then they are for children.'The Trespassers' is about siblings Neely and Grub, wh...
This is another Newberry Honor book that my son and I are reading together. I enjoyed it and thought it was a fun story. It starts out with two girls and their little 4 year old brother that love "Egyptology" so they create their own imaginative game to play in secret. As they bring new kids with ne...
Great characters, solid writing. Why on Earth does the back cover reveal 75% of the plot? A little sad it took me so long to get to this, as my niece may have aged out of it, but maybe I can convince her to read it to her little sister.
If it hadn't been for Wanda's Summer Carnival of Children's Literature, I would not have heard of The Egypt Game. The story of a group of kids who start out as strangers but grow close through their interest in Ancient Egypt was as charming as it was edgy. I seriously had not expected the dark tur...
I enjoyed this book - but, I am starting to think that no matter how good an older YA book is, if you didn't read it as a child, you can't or won't appreciate it as much as an adult. Just a theory, but one that might apply to this particular book in my case.
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