Maia and her brother Sethnet are orphaned and sent to live with their cruel aunt and uncle in ancient Thebes; and when Maia pleads with Sethnet, who is studying to be a scribe, to teach her to write, it becomes the one thing that will save her life.
year: 2005
call number/section: 1000
subjects: uncles, fiction, brothers and sisters, historical fiction, siblings, egypt, civilization, to 332 b.c, fiction, thebes (egypt : extinct city)