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The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

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The Egypt Game: LitPlan Teacher Pack
59,400 words, approx. 198 pages
A complete lesson plan by Teacher's Pet. For Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7. This lesson plan is sold separately and is not included with any subscription or study pack.
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Author Biography

Name: Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Birth Date: May 11, 1927
Place of Birth: Lemoore, California
Nationality: American
Gender: Female

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Biography of Zilpha Keatley Snyder
2755 words, approx. 9.2 pages
"Growing up in a rather limited, narrow environment," Zilpha Keatley Snyder writes in Innocence & Experience: Essays & Conversations on Children's Literature, "I escaped through books and games into a much wider world. I loved almost any kind of...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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The Egypt Game Information
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The Egypt Game (1967) is a Newbery Honor -winning novel by Zilpha Keatley Snyder. The story, set in California, follows the life of a lonely 11-year-old named April Hall (the daughter of an actress sent to live with her grandmother) and 11-year-old...


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Montessori Life
Journey to Egypt: A Board Game
01/01/2006: 1,956 words, approx. 7 pages
In the fall of 2005, the first, second, and third grade students in my Lower Elementary classroom began studying ancient Egypt independently by choosing to read about and research Egyptian rulers, monuments, and artifacts, and their interest continued throughout the rest of the school...
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The Economist (US)
Nuclear succession; Egypt and nuclear power.(Why Egypt is joining the nuclear-power game)
09/30/2006: 704 words, approx. 2 pages
Gamal Mubarak rubs up his image Why Egypt's unofficial crown prince has staked his country's claim WHEN Gamal Mubarak, the son of Egypt's president, announced his country's intention to pursue atomic energy, the message was hardly a bombshell. As long ago...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Ruth Hill Viguers
156 words, approx. 1 pages
[The Egypt Game] moves with suspense and humor, despite evidence that the ingredients were deliberately assembled. The characters, though delightfully real, appear to have been carefully selected to represent a cross section of middle-class Americans…. Incidents are contrived to build a story of contemporary urban life (in this case, a large university town in California), complete with the shadow of a murderer lurking in the community. There is little doubt about the appeal of this lively book with ...
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Critical Essay by Zena Sutherland
134 words, approx. 1 pages
[The Egypt Game] may prove to be one of the controversial books of the decade: it is strong in characterization, the dialogue is superb, the plot is original, and the sequences in which the children are engaged in sustained imaginative play are fascinating, and often very funny. On the other hand, the murder scare and the taciturn, gloomy Professor seem grim notes. In this story the fact that the children are white, Negro, and Oriental seems not a device but a natural consequence of grouping in a heterogene...


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The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

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