Books with title The Egypt Game

A young reader's classic, The Egypt Game tells the story of two sixth-graders who bind as friends through enjoyment of reading and playing games of imagination. Soon they develop a common interest in ancient Egypt and begin to reconstruct it in an abandoned storage yard. But complications occur when others join in, a murderer stalks the neighborhood and an oracle predicts very strange things.

Cecilia Calhoun's transition to Capital Central High School has been rough. She joined Stepperz, the school step team, but hasn't really become close with any of the girls. The team co-captain, Brennay Baxter, rules Stepperz like dictator. She makes life miserable for any girl who doesn't do her bidding. Cecilia is horrified when someone starts an anonymous blog that awards points for every documented interaction students have with Remy Stevenson, an autistic Cap Central student.Capital Central High School, or Cap Central as the students like to call it, is in the northeast quadrant of Washington, D.C. Any urban school faces broad challenges, and Cap Central is no different. But some tight-knit juniors meet the difficulties head-on with courage, friendship, determination, and hard work.

Ollie and Uma are inseparable friends growing up in a world of inequalities that threaten to tear their friendship apart.In their effort to change the nature of the game that perpetuates these conditions, they discover that conflict and violence lead to new forms of inequality and injustice.Justice and equality, they learn, are best achieved through constructive and unifying strategies of social change.