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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A photo essay on ancient Egypt and the people who lived there, documented through the mummies, pottery, weapons, and other objects they left behind. Describes their society, religion, obsession with the afterlife, and methods of mummification.
2) Mummy Cat
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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"Mummy Cat prowls his pyramid home, longing for his beloved owner. As he roams the tomb, lavish murals above his head display scenes of the cat with his young Egyptian queen. Hidden hieroglyphs deepen the tale and are explained in an informative author's note"--
3) Pyramids
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
With a fiction feel but a non-fiction focus this book profiles the high interest subject of the Pyramids and examines the daily lives, incidents, inventions and personalities that defined their times in the ancient world. An easy addition to the Books for Boys list in any library.
4) Tut, tut
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Time warp trio series volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Sam, Joe, and Fred finish their school project on ancient Egypt without using their magical time travel book, but when Joe's sister Anna plays with it and travels to the land of pyramids, they must follow her back in time to bring her back to 1996.
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Magic tree house fact trackers volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
An overview of ancient Egypt that covers mummies, pyramids, religion, funerals, and daily life as well as tomb discoveries and raiding. Includes a list of museums and sources for further research
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Masters of Rome volume 7
Description
Caesar is dead, and Rome is, again, divided. Lepidus has retreated to Africa, while Antony rules the opulent East, and Octavian claims the West, the heart of Rome, as his domain. Though this tense truce holds civil war at bay, Rome seems ripe for an emperor--a true Julian heir to lay claim to Caesar's legacy. With the bearing of a hero, and the riches of the East at his disposal, Antony seems poised to take the prize. Like a true warrior-king,...
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Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Seven-year-old Miriam places her baby brother's basket in the Nile River, watches the Pharoah's daughter draw him out and name him Moses, and ponders a vision of other water parting. Includes note on the biblical story on which this is based.
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer brings to life the most intriguing woman in the history of the world: Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt. Her palace shimmered with onyx, garnets, and gold, but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Above all else, Cleopatra was a shrewd strategist and an ingenious negotiator. Though her life spanned fewer than forty years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world. She was married twice, each...
12) For all time
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Time travelers (Caroline B. Cooney) volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Annie, a teenager in 1999, tries to travel back in time to join her lost love Strat in Egypt in 1899, but instead she ends up in ancient Egypt and in great danger.
13) Egypt
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
An illustrated introduction to ancient Egypt, discussing the role of the Nile River in Egyptian civilization, kingdoms and rulers, the development of a writing system, various aspects of daily life, and mummies and monuments. Includes a chronology.
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Taita, the Pharaoh's advisor and hero of Desert God and River God, once again finds himself caught up in a whirlpool of ruthless intrigue that threatens the very foundations of the beloved empire he has pledged his life to protect. Plunged into dangerous and deadly waters more treacherous than the Nile, he must use his intelligence, alchemy, and cunning to protect his Pharaoh and keep safe all he loves. Pharaoh Tamose lies mortally wounded. The ancient...
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In this startling historical mystery, unique in the author's canon, Agatha Christie investigates a deadly mystery at the heart of a dissonant family in ancient Egypt. Imhotep, wealthy landowner and priest of Thebes, has outraged his sons and daughters by bringing a beautiful concubine into their fold. And the manipulative Nofret has already set about a plan to usurp her rivals' rightful legacies. When her lifeless body is discovered at the foot of...
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Good Times Travel Agency volume 1
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Adventures in Ancient Egypt and Adventures in the Middle Ages mix fact and fiction for fast, funny and fascinating romps through the past. Kids will love each bookĐs contemporary comic-book look with its zany illustrations, speech balloons and guidebook. Parents and teachers will love the well-researched story lines and solid factual information. In the first book, the Binkerton twins, Josh and Emma, and their little sister Libby, stumble into the...
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Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Ten-year-old Kepi, a young girl in ancient Egypt, embarks on a journey to save her family when she is unexpectedly taken captive, along with the baby baboon she has rescued from a crocodile. An origin tale about fairies.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
A fictionalized account of the Biblical tale in which a Hebrew infant, rescued by the daughter of the Pharaoh, passes through a turbulent adolescence to eventually become a prophet of his people while his sister finds her true self as a priestess to the Egyptian gods.
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