Written
in 1967 by , is an award-winning novel that tells the story of six
children who create an imaginative game about Egypt.
April Hall is in the
sixth grade, and she is sent by her mother Dorothea to live with her paternal grandmother
Caroline Hall. Caroline lives on the third floor of Casa Rosada in apartment 312. Casa Rosada is
a run-down, three-story, 1920s apartment building located on Orchard Avenue in the university
town of Berkeley, California.
The building is described as being Spanish in
style with a pink exterior, arched doorways, stained glass, and tiled floors. One of the
buildings tenants calls it "The Petrified Birthday Cake." It is situated between some
small shops on one side, including a florist and a doughnut shop, and an antique shop called A-Z
Antiques, Curios, and Used Merchandise on the other side.
The Egypt Game
takes place in a storage yard at the back of A-Z Antiques. The antique shop is owned by a man
known as The Professor. As well as Caroline and April Ross, the building houses the landlady,
Mr. Bodler the janitor, the Barkley family, the Ross family, and the Chung
family.
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