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Tutankhamen's Gift

10 best books like Tutankhamen's Gift (Robert Sabuda): Archangel's War, Aurora Blazing, The Gods and Goddesses of Olympus, The Egyptian Cinderella, Of Numbers and Stars: The Story of Hypatia, The Golden Sandal: A Middle Eastern Cinderella Story, Tirzah, Seeker of Knowledge: The Man Who Deciphered Egyptian Hieroglyphs, The Librarian Who Measured the Earth, A Perfect Day

Archangel's War
AuthorNalini Singh
ISBN0451491661
Wings of silver. Wings of blue. Mortal heart. Broken dreams. Shatter. Shatter. Shatter. A sundering. A grave. I see the end. I see. . .

The world is in chaos as the power surge of the Cascade rises to a devastating crescendo. In furiously resisting its attempts to turn Elena into a vessel for Raphael’s...
Aurora Blazing
AuthorJessie Mihalik
ISBN0062802461
Bianca von Hasenberg did her duty for High House von Hasenberg and ended up trapped in a terrible marriage. When her husband dies unexpectedly and leaves her a happy widow, she vows never to marry again. Instead, she uses her connections to save other young women. Information is power and Bianca has a...
The Gods and Goddesses of Olympus
AuthorAliki
ISBN0064461890
Long, long ago in ancient Greece, people began telling wonderful stories to explain the mysteries of life. These myths featured gods and goddesses, mighty beings who look human but have amazing powers and live forever. Now you can meet these extraordinary characters and hear their legends, brought...
The Egyptian Cinderella
AuthorShirley Climo
ISBN0064432793
"Climo has woven this ancient tale, a mixture of fact and myth, with clarity and eloquence. The beauty of the language is set off to perfection by Heller's arresting illustrations. A stunning combination of fluent prose and exquisitely wrought illustrations that makes] a winner for story hours, as...
Of Numbers and Stars: The Story of Hypatia
AuthorD. Anne Love
ISBN0823416216
I feel very divided in reviewing this book, and torn between giving it three and four stars.

Things I like: This kid-friendly version of the story of Hypatia, a girl born Alexandria in the fourth century CE in a time when girls are not supposed to study philosophy or mathematics or science. But,...
The Golden Sandal: A Middle Eastern Cinderella Story
AuthorRebecca Hickox Ayres
ISBN0823415139
Poor Maha! Her jealous stepmother makes her do all the housework while her selfish stepsister lazes about.

Since Maha's father is away fishing most of the time, there is no one to help or comfort her. All that begins to change when Maha finds a magical red fish. In return for sparing his life, the...
Tirzah
AuthorLucille Travis
ISBN0836135466
Tirzah's people, the Israelites, have been in slavery to the Egyptians for many years. Tirzah and her lame brother, Oren, help gather straw to make bricks. She observes the suffering of her people and the injustices that are done to them by the Egyptian police. Moses begs Pharaoh to let them go, but Pharaoh...
Seeker of Knowledge: The Man Who Deciphered Egyptian Hieroglyphs
AuthorJames Rumford
To a child, the future is a magnificent dream. For Jean-Francois Champollion, the dream was to sail up the Nile in Egypt and uncover the secrets of the past. In 1802, when Champollion was eleven years old, he vowed to be the first person to read Egypt's ancient hieroglyphs. He faced great challenges over...
The Librarian Who Measured the Earth
AuthorKathryn Lasky
ISBN0316515264
A perfect introduction to mathematical concepts for young readers, written by a Newbery honor-winning author!

This colorfully illustrated biography of the Greek philosopher and scientist Eratosthenes, who compiled the first geography book and accurately measured the globe's circumference,...
A Perfect Day
AuthorLane Smith
ISBN1626725365
Today is a perfect day for Cat, Dog, Chickadee, and Squirrel.

Cat is lounging among the daffodils. Dog is sitting in the wading pool, deep in the cool water. Chickadee is eating fresh seed from the birdfeeder. Squirrel is munching on his very own corncob. Today is a perfect day in Bert's backyard.

Until...
Two of Everything
AuthorLily Toy Hong
ISBN0807581577
After reading this book to my students, I will have them do an activity called Seeing Double. Students will be grouped with a partner. One student will roll one number cube. He/she will place the number rolled in the square on their Seeing Double activity sheet. Student will select that number of plastic...
Drake's Comprehensive Compendium of Dragonology
AuthorDugald A. Steer
ISBN0763646237
Dragonologists, look no further! Here, in a single handsome, indispensable volume, is gathered a lifetime’s worth of knowledge about these magnificent creatures.

Call it an encyclopedia of dragonology — an authorized resource so definitive that dragon lovers everywhere are fired...
The Day of Ahmed's Secret
AuthorFlorence H. Parry
ISBN0688140238
The Day of Ahmed's Secret

As young Ahmed delivers butane gas to customers all over the city of Cairo, he thinks, I have a secret. All day long, as he maneuvers his donkey cart through streets crowded with cars and camels, down alleys filled with merchants' stalls, and past buildings a thousand...
The Dead Bird
AuthorMargaret Wise Brown


It is true, many children do seem to enjoy the stab of pathos incumbent on finding dead a creature that has no personal weight for them. Kudos to Brown for recognizing that and treating it realistically, I guess? I'm not sure what the point of this story was. Unless you are a kid who has been accused...
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