The Egyptian Enchantment: A Lottie Lipton Adventure
Chapter One London 1928 lip and frowned in Lottie bit her 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 7O mi leaves Station A travel les an hour and another train Station B travel ing at ing at leaves
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 2
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 3
