80s/90s YA novel set in Egypt

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80s/90s YA novel set in Egypt

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1Aimelynn
elokuu 20, 2013, 1:36 am

I read this book in middle school, and would love to find it again!

The daughter of an archaeologist accompanies her father on a dig where they discover an ancient sarcophagus. While she is home alone during a storm, the sarcophagus cracks and opens up, revealing a young pharaoh who was sealed in the tomb to guard some sort of object. (He grew up believing that his twin brother was born first and was therefore the next to inherit the throne, when in fact he was the first born. They royal advisors lied because they knew that the true pharaoh was needed to guard whatever the object was. He existed in some state of suspended animation.) When he wakes up and discovers that the object is gone, he enlists the girls help to get it back. I remember that they stole the id of one of the Egyptian archaeologists, and they made the pharaoh over to look like him, even making him a fake mustache. Once he restores the object he is supposed to be able to go to the afterlife to be with his family. In the final scene, his mother (I think?) gives him the option of returning with her to the afterlife, or living out the remainder of his life in the present world, and he choses to remain in the present.

Thanks so much!

2bookel
Muokkaaja: elokuu 20, 2013, 1:57 am

Either of these?

Young, Alida E.

Terror in the Tomb of Death
1988: Worthington Press
In Egypt, Don's parents are missing, and it might be the result of an ancient curse.

Return to the Tomb of Death
1990: Worthington Press
Sequel to Terror in the Tomb of Death. Don must rescue his brother from a curse.

3jjmcgaffey
elokuu 20, 2013, 9:41 pm

No, I know this one - especially the switch of the twins. One had a crystal necklace and one had - wood? - and the assumption was that the more "valuable" necklace was on the true Pharaoh but the other necklace was actually more important.

Rats. Lloyd Alexander? One of the standard children's novelists. I'll see if I can figure it out.

4Scorbet
elokuu 21, 2013, 1:56 am

Maybe The Reluctant God by Pamela Service:

While his brother prepares to mount the throne of Egypt as the next member of the Twelfth Dynasty, the teenage prince Ameni is sealed in a secret tomb in a state of suspended animation, to be revived four thousand years later by the fourteen-year-old daughter of an archeologist.

5Aimelynn
Muokkaaja: elokuu 21, 2013, 1:43 pm

"The Reluctant God" is the one, thank you so much!!