The Mummy Snatcher of Memphis - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1847246001 ISBN 13: 9781847246004

Publisher: Quercus Publishing Plc

Synopsis

Rare book

About this title

About the Author:

Natasha Narayan was born in India but emigrated to England at the age of five. She has had many jobs in journalism including working as a war correspondent in Bosnia. Like Kit Salter, Natasha loves travelling and exploring new places. She hopes to get to see some of the far flung deserts and mountains of her heroine - even if it's by bus rather than camel and yak. She lives in Oxford.

From Booklist:

Kit Salter, the ebullient 12-year-old heroine of this archaeological adventure story, lives in Victorian England, an era that would normally restrain any girl’s Egyptian wanderlust. But Kit is well situated, having only one parent, an Egyptologist at Oxford University; a famous explorer aunt, newly returned with a mummy from the tombs of Memphis; and a passion for deciphering ancient languages. Upon the arrival of the mummy, Kit and her two friends discover a small boy stowed away in the packing case. The boy, Ahmed, tells Kit and her friends that he must recover a stolen scarab from a secret burial place of the vizier to a great pharaoh or his village will be annihilated. The mummy in the museum then disappears, and the chase leads Kit and her friends through London’s vicious East End and then on to Egypt itself. Even though the plot borders on the ridiculous, so engaging is the chatty narrator, Kit, and so rollicking is the action that readers will be fully snared. First published in the UK in 2009. Grades 4-8. --Connie Fletcher

About this edition

• Publisher: Quercus Publishing Plc
• ISBN 10: 1847246001
• ISBN 13: 9781847246004
• Binding: Hardcover