Zilpha Keatley Snyder's Books
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The Treasures of WeatherbyHarleigh J. Weatherby IV feels misunderstood. At age twelve he is about as tall as a six-year-old, and no one lets him forget it. At school the bullies...Read More -
The Egypt GameThis classic 1968 Newbery Honor Book, The Egypt Game, is available in a brand new paperback edition!Read More
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The Headless CupidThe classic 1972 Newbery Honor Book, The Headless Cupid, is available in a brand new hardcover edition!Read More
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The Witches of WormThe classic 1973 Newbery Honor Book, The Witches of Worm, is available in a brand new hardcover edition!Read More
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William's Midsummer DreamsWilliam escapes his horrible Baggett family and is off on a summertime theatrical adventure in the companion to William S. and the Great Escape!Read More
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Great ExpectationsNo other novel in the English language so epitomizes upward mobility, the rise from poverty to wealth, as Great Expectations. Often considered to be...Read More
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William S. and the Great EscapeWilliam S. and the Great Escape is a new middle-grade adventure from multiple-Newbery Honor-winning author Zilpha Keatley Snyder.Read More
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The Bronze PenTwelve-year-old Audrey Abbott dreams of becoming a writer, but with her father's failing health and the family's shaky finances, it seems there is no...Read More
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NWI Times, November 4, 2012
...behind the house (“horror movie-looking woods,” she said), daydreaming and reading. Her favorite books were romantic fantasies — Zilpha Keatley Snyder’s “The Velvet Room” and “The Egypt Game,” and Beatrice Gormley’s “Mail-Order...
Minneapolis Star Tribune, October 27, 2012
...the house ("horror movie-looking woods," she said), daydreaming and reading. Her favorite books were romantic fantasies -- Zilpha Keatley Snyder's "The Velvet Room" and "The Egypt Game," and Beatrice Gormley's "Mail-Order Wings," about a girl who sees an...
Spectator, August 8, 2012
...Good Muslim by Tahmima Anam 2). As a child, what did you read under the covers? Mysteries by Zilpha Keatley Snyder , Paula Fox’s YA novels , Noel Streatfeild’s ‘ Shoes ’ series. 3) Has a book ever made you cry, and if so which one? ...
BabbleBaby, August 1, 2012
...Where would I be without Beverly Cleary? For that matter, where would I be without Judy Blume and Zilpha Keatley Snyder. I can’t say for sure, but likely living in a van down by the river. These fabulous women along with Ann M. Martin, she who...
Wicked Local Medford, July 19, 2012
...One book that has maintained its popularity among middle school students for decades is “The Egypt Game” by Zilpha Keatley Snyder. The novel centers on a group of students pretending to be in Ancient Egypt when something mysterious happens. That...
Redondo Beach Patch, July 10, 2012
...Madeleine L'Engle A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Keatley Snyder The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder SIXTH-GRADE READING LIST The Fighting Ground by Avi The True Confessions of Charlotte...
School Library Journal, July 7, 2012
...Mountain by Jean Craighead George (1959) #78 Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild (1936) #79 The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder (1967) #80 The Four-Story Mistake by Elizabeth Enright (1942) #81 The Witches by Roald Dahl (1983) #82 The Cricket...
Minneapolis Star Tribune, October 27, 2012
...the house ("horror movie-looking woods," she said), daydreaming and reading. Her favorite books were romantic fantasies -- Zilpha Keatley Snyder's "The Velvet Room" and "The Egypt Game," and Beatrice Gormley's "Mail-Order Wings," about a girl who sees an...
Spectator, August 8, 2012
...Good Muslim by Tahmima Anam 2). As a child, what did you read under the covers? Mysteries by Zilpha Keatley Snyder , Paula Fox’s YA novels , Noel Streatfeild’s ‘ Shoes ’ series. 3) Has a book ever made you cry, and if so which one? ...
BabbleBaby, August 1, 2012
...Where would I be without Beverly Cleary? For that matter, where would I be without Judy Blume and Zilpha Keatley Snyder. I can’t say for sure, but likely living in a van down by the river. These fabulous women along with Ann M. Martin, she who...
School Library Journal, July 7, 2012
...Mountain by Jean Craighead George (1959) #78 Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild (1936) #79 The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder (1967) #80 The Four-Story Mistake by Elizabeth Enright (1942) #81 The Witches by Roald Dahl (1983) #82 The Cricket...
Redondo Beach Patch, June 21, 2012
...Patricia MacLachlan Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder No More Dead Dogs by Gordon Korman Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh by Robert C. O'Brien FINAL BOOK REPORT...
School Library Journal, June 19, 2012
...The Black Pearl by Scott O’Dell, The Fearsome Inn by Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder and (amazingly enough) fellow E.L. Konigsburg title (and her first novel) Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me,...
Topeka Capital-Journal, June 3, 2012
...wrote her first story about an abandoned puppy at the age of 7. “William’s Midsummer Dreams” by Zilpha Keatley Snyder, Atheneum, 2011, 209 pages, ages 8-12. William heads off to summer drama camp to audition for a part in Shakespeare’s “A...
