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1) Pyramid
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Presents a photographic introduction to pyramids, explaining what they are, discussing how and when they were built, examining the purpose of pyramids, and looking at different pyramids around the world.
2) Pyramid
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Text and black-and-white illustrations follow the intricate step-by-step process of the building of an ancient Egyptian pyramid.
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It sounds like something's moving in the mummy's tomb. Did the secret chant wake someone?After last year's scary adventure, Gabe's a little nervous about being back in Egypt. Back near the ancient pyramids. Back where he saw all those creepy mummies.Then he learns about an Egyptian superstition. A secret chant that is supposed to bring mummies back to life. Gabe's uncle says it's just a hoax.But now it sounds like something's moving in the mummy's...
5) Pyramids
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With a fiction feel but a non-fiction focus this book profiles the high interest subject of the Pyramids and examines the daily lives, incidents, inventions and personalities that defined their times in the ancient world. An easy addition to the Books for Boys list in any library.
6) Mummy
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When the portal transports them to the Valley of the Kings in ancient Egypt, the Time Soldiers encounter thieves and an angry pharoah as they try to make their way to safety, and along the way they learn that the amulet may give them some control over their journeys.
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When the Zills family is summoned to Egypt to help find the hidden burial site of an ancient pharaoh, Matt and Bibi are locked into an adventure they did not expect. Stuck inside a pyramid with only each other, their dog Riley, and geometric hieroglyphics to help them find their way, the twins must use their math knowledge to solve the riddles on the walls and locate the burial chamber. Luckily, the two know their stuff when it comes to geometric...
13) Threshold
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A shadow is looming over the great hot southern land of Ashdod. It is the shadow of threshold, the pyramid that the Magi of Agi are building to propel them into Infinity. But something is waiting in Infinity. Waiting for the final glass to be laid, waiting for the capstone to be cemented in blood, waiting to use threshold to step from Infinity into Ashdod! thousands of slaves have been drafted into the construction of threshold. Among them is tirzah,...
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Unlike most teenaged boys, Teppic isn't chasing girls and working at the mall. Instead he's just inherited the throne of the desert kingdom of Djelibeybi-a job that's come a bit earlier than he expected (a turn of fate his recently departed father wasn't too happy about either). It's bad enough being new on the job, but Teppic hasn't a clue as to what a pharaoh is supposed to do. After all, he's been trained at Ankh-Morpork's famed assassins' school,...
20) Pyramids of Giza
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Colorful photographs and easy-to-follow text introduce children to the history of the Pyramids of Giza, providing information on the people and scientific principles behind their construction, as well as a timeline tracing its creation.