Zilpha keatley snyder the gypsy game summary

The kids from “The Egypt Game” are back, taking up right where they left off in the first novel.

Snyder's charismatic crew of five sharp middle-schoolers (and one precocious 4-year-old) trade in their robes and headdresses for colorful jewels and decide to.

What game will they play next? The answer is Gypsies. While April plunges in with her usual enthusiasm, Melanie seems to be holding back. But it’s Toby who adds a really new wrinkle when he announces that he himself is a bona fide Gypsy.

Plus he can get them some of his grandmother’s things to use as real Gypsy props for the new game.

The Gypsy Game in a 1997 children's book by Zilpha Keatley Snyder, a sequel to The Egypt Game (1967).

Toby, one of the Egyptians, has run away, supposedly to avoid being kidnapped by his gypsy grandparents.

Plot Summary.

Toby, one of the Egyptians, has run away, supposedly to avoid being kidnapped by his gypsy grandparents.

The story takes up where The Egypt Game has left off: on Christmas day when April Hall and Melanie Ross plan to play an imaginative game involving Gypsies.

What could be more thrilling? Then Toby suddenly and mysteriously disappears, and the kids discover that living as real-life Gypsies may not be as much fun as they thought. How will they find Toby and rescue him from the very real problems that are haunting his life?