Blossom Culp has her hands full, keeping her friend Alexander out of the clutches of arch-rival Lottie, saving the job of the new suffragette school teacher and getting her Ancient Egypt grave robbery project done. She’s not very happy when the ghost of an Egyptian princess appears to her and demands to be restored to her tomb. It’s Illinois, after all, so getting to Egypt might be challenging. But the ghost is a princess, who expects to be obeyed, so Blossom and Alexander figure out how to help her and save the day.
Author: Richard Peck
Ages: 9 – 12
Main character(s): girl
Part of a series: yes
Where: Rural Illinois
When: 1914
Note: hard-to-find
This is the fourth of four Blossom & Alexander books. The others are:
- The Ghost Belonged To Me (#1)
- Ghosts I Have Been (#2)
- The Dreadful Future of Blossom Culp (#3)
Joe, Fred & Sam manage to get their Ancient Egypt school projects all done without having to use their time-traveling book to check out the time of the pharaohs in person — or so they think. Joe’s little sister happens to open the book and all four of them are swept into the past and have to battle evil priests, crocodiles and collapsed tombs before they can get back. Quick, fun read!
Milo doesn’t like it when unexpected things happen, so sometimes it’s hard to be the adopted child of two people who run a smuggler’s hotel. But when several guests show up unexpectedly near Christmas, they all seem mysteriously connected, even though they don’t know each other. A role-playing game with a friend helps Milo set aside his worries and satisfy his curiosity about the guests and their interest in his very old house and its secrets.
Like Roald Dahl, Eva Ibbotson writes books in which some really nasty things can happen, sometimes even to good people. In Which Witch? the orphan Terence has to witness some very black magic in order to help white witch Belladona. The handsome wizard Arriman has announced a contest: he will marry the local witch with the most sinister spell. Belladona, who can only create flowers and birds, wants nothing more than to marry the great wizard, but it seems hopeless even without some fierce and foul competition. This book actually turned my stomach at one point, but it also made me laugh out loud, so I’ve read it over and over.
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