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The Egypt Game
by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
A childhood favorite. I wondered if it was still as great as I remembered, and it is. A disparate group of kids become friends, play interesting games, and get tangled up in a murder.
As a child, the whole book seemed so exotic to me. The ethnic diversity wasn't something I saw in my daily life. Everyone I'd ever met lived in a house, so I found these glimpses of apartment life extremely compelling.
The amount of freedom these city kids have is very much of the 70s, but modern kids might find it strange that parents in this story just let their kids do whatever.
Something I was unaware of until yesterday is that there's a sequel, The Gypsy Game, so I'm reading that now, with no expectation that it will transport me as The Egypt Game did when I was 7.
As a child, the whole book seemed so exotic to me. The ethnic diversity wasn't something I saw in my daily life. Everyone I'd ever met lived in a house, so I found these glimpses of apartment life extremely compelling.
The amount of freedom these city kids have is very much of the 70s, but modern kids might find it strange that parents in this story just let their kids do whatever.
Something I was unaware of until yesterday is that there's a sequel, The Gypsy Game, so I'm reading that now, with no expectation that it will transport me as The Egypt Game did when I was 7.