The trouble with mummies
By: F.R. Hitchcock
Publisher: Hot Key
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 163
ISBN-13: 9781471400469; 9781471400476
Subjects: Eccentrics and eccentricities; Juvenile fiction; Humorous stories; Families; Children's stories
Description: Probably the first really noticeable thing was mum coming back from the hairdresser's on Friday afternoon, wearing a small black beard. I sat at the kitchen table, staring.
Notes: 9+.
Table of contents: title: Sam comes home one day to find his family turning a little bit loopy; title: his mum is redecorating using hieroglyphics and his dad is building a pyramid in the back garden. He hopes it's just a weird new fashion ...but then the strangeness starts to spread. People are turning into Egyptians everywhere!