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Author
Series
Another Coop heist volume 2
Language
English
Description
Master thief Coop and his DOPS teammates trigger unexpected chaos when they steal a not-quite-dead and very lovesick Egyptian mummy that wields terrifying magic.
2) Mummy cat
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Mummy Cat prowls his pyramid home, longing for his beloved owner. As he roams the tomb, lavish murals above his head display scenes of the cat with his young Egyptian queen. Hidden hieroglyphs deepen the tale and are explained in an informative author's note"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Abby and Peter are staying with Uncle Jonathan in an eerie old village. Their uncle knows a lot about Egyptian pyramids, and his living room even looks like an ancient tomb. Do other secrets lurk inside Uncle Jonathan's house? MUM's the word! Next, Abby and Peter will get all WRAPPED up in a terrifying mystery. Slappy the Dummy and other villains have been sighted in HorrorLand theme park. A monster named Byron might offer help . . . if they can find...
Author
Series
Ramses the Damned volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Ramses the Great returns in this “darkly magical” (USA Today) novel from bestselling author Anne Rice
“The reader is held captive and, ultimately, seduced.”—San Francisco Chronicle
Ramses the Great lives!
But having drunk the elixer of live, he is now Ramses the Damned, doomed forever to wander the earth, desperate to quell hungers that can never be...
“The reader is held captive and, ultimately, seduced.”—San Francisco Chronicle
Ramses the Great lives!
But having drunk the elixer of live, he is now Ramses the Damned, doomed forever to wander the earth, desperate to quell hungers that can never be...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"On Halloween night, Sammy has to make a quick trip throught the dark woods before he can go trick-or-treating. But someone -- or something -- is following him. What could it be?" --- [P.] 4 of cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House Publishers Ltd
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Ishmael Jones and his partner Penny have been summoned to remote Cardavan House, home of the world's largest private collection of Ancient Egyptian artefacts, for the unveiling of George Cardavan's latest acquisition: a bone fide Egyptian mummy. When a bloodstained body is discovered beside the empty sarcophagus, Ishmael is dismissive of the theory that the mummy's curse is to blame. Instead he sets out to uncover the human killer responsible. But...
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 3
Publisher
Lectorum Publications
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
Jack and his younger sister take a trip in their tree house back to ancient Egypt, where they help a queen's mummy continue her voyage to the Next Life.
9) Bone River
Author
Publisher
Amazon Pub
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
In the mid-19th century, Leonie Russell works alongside her husband, Junius, an oysterman in the Washington Territory. At night she continues her father's lifelong obsession-- collecting artifacts and studying the native culture that once thrived in the area. On her 37th birthday, Leonie discovers a mummy protruding from a riverbank--a mummy that by all evidence shouldn't exist. As Leonie searches for clues to the mummy's origins, she begins to feel...
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 26
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Geronimo and friends go to the Eyptian Museum just before Halloween to investigate what seems to be a real live mummy.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A little mummy who wants to run away tells his mother how he will escape, but no matter what horrible creature he claims he will become or where he plans to go, she promises to be there with him.
Author
Series
Nora Kelly novels (Preston & Child) volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A sequel to "Old Bones" finds FBI agent Corrie Swanson and Santa Fe archaeologist Nora Kelly investigating the mummified corpse of a long-dead victim who died in agony while holding a mysterious sixteenth-century gold cross.
Author
Publisher
Two Lions
Pub. Date
[2015].
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"As the old mummy makes his way across the graveyard and through the haunted castle, he swallows all kinds of creepy things. From a rat to witch's brew, and a crow to a spooky ghost, this mummy keeps swallowing and swallowing...until finally there's a knock on the door. Trick or treat! Jennifer Ward's fun text and Steve Gray's zany artwork add a spooky Halloween twist to this adaptation of the popular song"--Jacket.
Author
Series
Ramses the damned volume 2
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
From the iconic and bestselling author of The Mummy and The Vampire Chronicles, a mesmerizing, glamorous new tale of ancient feuds and modern passions. Ramses the Great, former pharaoh of Egypt, is reawakened by the elixir of life in Edwardian England. Now immortal with his bride-to-be, he is swept up in a fierce and deadly battle of wills and psyches against the once-great Queen Cleopatra. Ramses has reawakened Cleopatra with the same perilous elixir...
Author
Series
Ramses the damned volume 3
Publisher
Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A pharaoh made immortal by a mysterious and powerful elixir, Ramses the Great became counselor and lover to some of Egypt's greatest and most powerful rulers before he was awakened from centuries of slumber to the mystifying and dazzling world of Edwardian England. Having vanquished foes both human and supernatural, he's found love with the beautiful heiress Julie Stratford, daughter of Lawrence Stratford, the slain archeologist who discovered his...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Victorian Scotland is becoming less strange to modern-day homicide detective Mallory Atkinson. Though inhabiting someone else's body will always be unsettling, even if her employers know that she's not actually housemaid Catriona Mitchell, ever since the night both of them were attacked in the same dark alley 150 years apart. Mallory likes her job as assistant to undertaker/medical examiner Dr. Duncan Gray, and is developing true friends--and feelings--in...
Author
Series
Theodosia Throckmorton books volume 2
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Pub. Co
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When mummies go missing all over London, eleven-year-old Theodosia puts aside her fight against the Serpents of Chaos to save her father, who is suspected in the thefts, all the while avoiding a string of new governesses.
Author
Series
Monster High diaries volume 5
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When her mother, an Egyptian mummy, returns after a long absence and is no longer interested in fashion and glamour, Cleo, a student at Monster HIgh, decides to give her a makeover.
Publisher
Black Spot Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, the Bride of Frankenstein, , Dr. Moreau, the Headless Horseman, the Invisible Man, the Phantom of the Opera, the Wicked Witch of the West--they're all here in this collection of horror short stories that reimagine, subvert, and pay homage to our favorite monsters and creatures." --
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