|THE EGYPT GAME (Summarizer)

 The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatly Snider.

I had to summarize what happened in the book. My group finished the book.
 April Hall had just moved into her grandmother's apartment from Hollywood. She meets Melanie Ross and Marshall Ross, the children of her grandmother's friend. Melanie is the same age as April, eleven, and they live in the same apartment building. Over the next few weeks after meeting, they visit the library together, and they also play with paper dolls. One day they find a book about Ancient Egypt in the library.  The topic catches their attention and they soon become engrossed in it. 
 Melanie and April find an area behind the A-Z Antiques Shop, which is owned by a mysterious, silent man named the Professor. They use the space and make "Egypt". In Egypt, they make decorations that make it look really like Egypt. The childish game turns into a real live mystery when a young girl is murdered in the neighborhood. Adults don't allow them to play outside, and nobody can do anything without somebody else. Toby and Ken who are their classmates, follow the girls and Marshall into Egypt. Melanie, April, and Marshall let them join. Toby comes up with the idea of the Egyptian Oracle Ceremony. After finding answers to many of the questions, Toby confesses that it was him who answered them. 
 One rainy night, while April is babysitting Marshall, she remembers leaving her maths notebook in Egypt, so April and Marshall go back to Egypt. Instead of finding her notebook, she gets attacked. A hand grabbed her throat, and then a distant "Help! Help!" was heard. April and Marshall go down to the police station, and Marshall tells them everything he knew. The man sometimes worked in the A-Z Antiques shop, and he had a mental illness.
The fence is boarded up and Egypt is closed. However, on the day before Christmas, the Professor comes over and gives each of the children a key for the new door to the fence. He tells them his life story, and makes a number of confessions. In fact he had been part of the Egyptian Oracle Ceremony.