The Egyptian Enchantment: A Lottie Lipton Adventure

By Dan Metcalf and Rachelle Panagarry

Welcome to the British Museum, home to Lottie Lipton: nine-year-old investigator extraordinaire! When Lottie reads a magic spell that brings some mischievous Egyptian statues to life, the museum ends up in a complete mess! Can Lottie and her friends track them down before they destroy the whole museum?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lerner Publishing
• Release date: Aug 1, 2017
• ISBN: 9781512468090

Dan Metcalf

This is the story of Dan Metcalf and his son’s walk through cancer. He currently lives in a small town outside of Kansas City, Missouri, with his wife, Susan, and their son, Stephen.

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Contents

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Glossary

Did You Know?

Brain Teaser

Crack the Code

Chapter One

London, 1928

Lottie bit her lip and frowned in concentration. This was the hardest puzzle she had ever had to solve and she knew that if she got it wrong, she would be in deep trouble. She sighed and read through it again:

If a train leaves Station A traveling at 7O miles an hour, and another train leaves Station B traveling at...

Argh! she moaned. Why does Uncle Bert always set the hardest homework?

Lottie was sitting at a coffee table in the middle of the small, untidy apartment that she shared with her great uncle Bert. She looked around at the mess: piles and piles of books, shelves crammed with ancient artifacts that Uncle Bert had collected on his digs in Egypt, and photographs of his time in Africa. Her eyes rested on a picture of Uncle Bert with a young, smiling couple in the desert. They were her parents, but they had been killed in an accident when a tomb they were exploring caved in. Her great uncle Bert had taken Lottie back to London, where he had managed to get a job and a place to live in the greatest museum in the world—the British Museum.

Living in the museum had its perks: Lottie could roam the halls when the public had gone home, she could read any book she liked from the vast library, and she didn’t even have to go to school! Although sometimes she wished she did, as the lessons that Uncle Bert gave her were getting harder and harder. She tried to read the question again, but all the words jumbled up in front of her eyes, so she stepped away for a while.

It was Sunday morning and the museum wasn’t yet open to visitors. The sunlight came streaming in through the apartment window, and Lottie decided that a walk around