We have three of the six books from this series A Lottie Lipton Adventure in our school library. These are simple mystery books perfect for younger readers. Each installment features young Lottie, who lives in the British Museum with her uncle, using her detective skills.
"She had lived in the museum ever since her parents had died in an accident during an archaeological dig in Egypt. Her Great Uncle, Professor Bertram West, had sworn to take care of her and and returned to England from Egypt to take a job at the British Museum."
There are five chapters and about seventy pages in each book plus a series of puzzles and cryptic codes which readers are invited to solve before Lottie reveals the answer and more of these to enjoy at the end of each book.
In The Scroll of Alexandria, the crazy museum director Sir Trevelyan Taylor declares he plans to sell all of the books in the museum library. Lottie, her uncle Bert and Reg the caretaker set off to prove the collection must be preserved by order of King George III.
Lottie opens a small box that arrives with an Egyptian mummy in The Egyptian Enchantment. She releases twenty shabtis into the museum but because she has only read half the spell these little doll like creatures race around the museum creating chaos. Shabtis are supposed to work as servants in the afterlife but these ones are out of control.
You can read more about each book on the author web site.
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