The Cat of Bubastes

Author: George Alfred Henty
Publisher: London : Blackie & Son
ISBN:
Category : Bast (Egyptian deity)
Languages : en
Pages : 408

Book Description
In 1250 B.C. the teenaged son of the Egyptian high priest sets off a series of harrowing events when he accidentally kills the sacred cat of Bubastes and, accompanied by his sister and two foreign slaves, embarks on a dangerous journey to find safe haven beyond the borders of Egypt.

Tales of Ancient Egypt

Author: Roger Lancelyn Green
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0147519179
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
Originally published: London: Bodley Head, 1967.

Cat Mummies

Author: Kelly Trumble
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547562640
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 67

Book Description
Clearly written text offers an answer to the question of why ancient Egyptians mummified thousands and thousands of cats. An easy-to-understand introduction to ancient Egyptian history.

Time Cat

Author: Lloyd Alexander
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805072709
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232

Book Description
Jason and his magic cat Gareth travel through time to visit countries all over the world during different periods of history.

Temple Cat

Author: Andrew Clements
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618111398
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Book Description
A temple cat in ancient Egypt grows tired of being worshiped and cared for in a reverent fashion and travels to the seaside, where she finds genuine affection with a fisherman and his children.

The Egyptian Cat Mystery

Author: John Blaine
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1613106076
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 316

Book Description
"Rick Brant is the boy who with his pal Scotty lives on an island called Spindrift and takes part in so many thrilling adventures and baffling mysteries involving science and electronics"--P. 4 of cover.

Beware the Pharaoh’s Tomb!

Author: Michael Teitelbaum
Publisher: Bearport Publishing
ISBN: 1684029708
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Book Description
Sam had been dying to go on a class field trip to the Ancient Egypt exhibit at the museum. But now, as he lay inside a sarcophagus with the closed lid blocking out all light, he began to panic. What would it feel like to spend eternity inside a tomb? Was there anything worse? Sam was about to find out.

Old Misery

Author: James Sage
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN: 1771388234
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44

Book Description
Sage has created a playful allegory about why misery exists in the world, and always will. Award-winning Ayto's pen-and-ink illustrations evoke the eccentric and slightly macabre feel of the book, perfectly complementing the original voice of the storytelling.

Horace: Secret of Scarab Beetle

Author: William Meyer
Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press
ISBN: 1634707958
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244

Book Description
Eleven-year-old Horace j. Edwards is an ordinary boy whose family has just moved to Niles, Michigan. But on the first day of sixth grade, mysterious things start to happen. His grandfather dies and Horace receives a strange gift--a stone scarab beetle. As he works to uncover the secrets surrounding his grandfather's death and the beetle, Horace is transported back in time to the ancient Egyptian city of Amarna. He meets the future pharaoh, young King Tut, and together the two boys become engaged in a fight to save the city from total destruction and Egypt itself from Tut's evil uncle Smenk. In the process, Horace discovers that he is the heir to an order of guardians, known as the Keepers of Time. The Secret of the Scarab Beetle is the first book in the middle-grade fantasy series Horace j. Edwards and the Time Keepers.

A Cat of a Different Color

Author: Lydia Adamson
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101599243
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 131

Book Description
Available Digitally for the First Time. A mystery cat takes talented actress-turned-sleuth Alice Nestleton behind the scenes—for murder... Beautiful Off-Off Broadway actress-sleuth Alice Nestleton gasps as a sinister shadow looms at the top of her apartment house stairs. But it’s only a moonstruck student from her acting class who comes bearing a gift—a gorgeous white Abyssinian-like cat. That is strange enough, but stranger still, just days later the young Lothario is killed in a Manhattan bar…and the exotic kitty is cat-napped! Alice’s own two cats, the regal Bushy and the harum-scarum Pancho, have helped her catch criminals before. But the trap she devises to corner the perpetrator of the cat theft may entangle her instead in a dead actor’s secrets and murderous drama—of love and revenge… Curl up with a copy of A Cat Tells Two Tales, available October 2012 in trade paperback from Obsidian.