Orphan of the Sun

By Gill Harvey

Book Overview

Visit www.orphanofthesun.com for excerpts, history, maps and more Meryt-Re should consider herself lucky: her aunt and uncle take good care of her, a boy in the village wants to marry her, and the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1582346852
• ISBN13: 9781582346854
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Bloomsbury U.S.A. Children's Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.3" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

A taste of ancient egypt unlike others I've read

This is a story - a mystery - told from the point of view of an adolescent girl. There are all the best parts of any teenage girl book: growing awareness of self, growing awareness of romance, growing awareness of the world. There are people who, in the words of GWB, misunderestimate Meryt. Meryt is chief among them. Additionally, there are fantastic details of the world in which Meryt resides. It's not told in a clinical way, though, but instead in so natural a manner that you feel a part of ancient Egypt. The plot is sufficiently complex and is well developed. The supporting characters are also very well developed, and some you will like, while some you will... not like so much. Meryt, though, is a wonderful character with whom most girls will relate readily. A great read for a girl - be she 15 or 35. (*)>

How does this book have no reviews

An orphan girl who grows up in her uncle's house earns a reputation of being under the influence of the gods for seeing a death before it happened. Now there is trouble stirring not only in her home town but also in her uncle's house. Her cousin has fallen sick and her uncle blames her saying she put a spell on him; also she is having strange dreams about the trouble being stirred up in town. Will the rekhet be able to help her interpret her dreams, what is that odd slave girl stealing amulets for, will her uncle force her to marry just to get rid of her, and will her life ever return to normal? An ineresintg book set in ancient Egypt, I would have given it five stars but I'm sick of school and Egypt.