Eleven-year-old Theodosia has the ability to detect black magic and ancient curses that are attached to objects in the Museum of Legends and Antiquities, which her father is the curator of, and discovers that a new artifact from Egypt is cursed and she must return it to the tomb it was excavated from before it destroys the British Empire.
year: 2007
call number/section: 1000
subjects: museums, juvenile fiction, magic, blessing and cursing, families, england, adventure and adventurers, fiction, london (england), history, 20th century, juvenile fiction, great britain, edward vii, 1901-1910, egypt, antiquities, fiction