Escape from Egypt
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Publisher Description
One minute, twins Scarlett and Sam are bickering about who's going to read the Four Questions at the Passover seder. The next minute, they've been swept up by Grandma Mina's time-traveling carpet and dumped in the ancient Egyptian desert! And as if being stranded 3,000 years in the past isn't bad enough, they also find their fellow Hebrews suffering in slavery. So they team up with Moses, Aaron, and Miriam to help free the slaves. The future's looking bright! But the story they know so well doesn’t turn out the way they expected...
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Magically transported back to Exodus times, twins Scarlett and Sam join forces with a hunky Moses and Aaron ("they were built like basketball players way taller and more muscular than any of the Egyptians") and a no-nonsense Miriam ("You can tell who's boss in this family," says Scarlett). When all three Bible heroes reveal they can't swim, it's the twins who guide the Israelites into the Red Sea. Kimmel (Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins) goes for an ambitious storytelling mashup, assisted by Stevanovic's sculptural, emotionally vivid spot illustrations. There's domestic drama (Moses and Pharaoh revert to stepbrotherly taunting), Time Warp Trio style irreverence (Sam cites the History Channel and Food Channel as sources of his expertise), mild narrative experimentation (the first nine plagues are a podcast transcript), and expressions of a confident faith ("God does what God does," Moses says when the slaying of the first born includes the twins' newfound friend, Pharaoh's son). The story doesn't always hang together, but it reads at a fast clip and should spark conversation about what the Passover story chooses to reveal. Ages 6 9.
