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Despite his swanky family heritage, Jack Bootle-Cadogan is a normal, unassuming kind of kid - until the day he is bitten by a stray dog in a graveyard. Next thing he knows, he is sprouting some sort of beard, and are those fangs developing at the back of his mouth? He can't go to school looking this RUFF
Thanks to a family curse, Jack is in fact destined to become Anubis, Egyptian god of the dead: half-human, half-jackal. Only he can perform the secret rituals which allow the souls of the dead to pass safely through to the Afterlife. Can our unlikely hero rise to the challenge - and still manage to win the school long distance run?
Thanks to a family curse, Jack is in fact destined to become Anubis, Egyptian god of the dead: half-human, half-jackal. Only he can perform the secret rituals which allow the souls of the dead to pass safely through to the Afterlife. Can our unlikely hero rise to the challenge - and still manage to win the school long distance run?
336 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2009
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April 7, 2012
Jack thinks his life is hard enough when he's trying to fit in at the local comprehensive (when his parents want him to go to Eton) and his Great Granny Dazzle (who was also his best friends) dies. Things get a lot worse when he starts to get rather hairier than he should be and two strange children Ozzy'n'Ice, Ice'n'Ozzy turn up on his doorstep.
Jack's story interweaves with the strange events surrounding his Great Granddad's death in Egypt in the 1920's.
This is an enjoyable enough read, with some wonderfully surreal moments thanks to the appearance of several Egyptian Gods, but the initial posh kid versus local kids theme seemed a little tired.
Jack's story interweaves with the strange events surrounding his Great Granddad's death in Egypt in the 1920's.
This is an enjoyable enough read, with some wonderfully surreal moments thanks to the appearance of several Egyptian Gods, but the initial posh kid versus local kids theme seemed a little tired.
January 18, 2012
At the beginning of this book I really didn't understand what was going on because the chapters jump from two different people's thoughts amd what is happening around them. Towards the middle of the book it started getting better, and by the end I understood what happened at the start!
To be honest I was a little disappointed after I had finished it because of how it was written at the start, but overall, it was quite a good story.
To be honest I was a little disappointed after I had finished it because of how it was written at the start, but overall, it was quite a good story.
December 30, 2012
Confusing but it ended ok.
February 29, 2016
I did not enjoy this book.
May 12, 2020
It was a bit confusing in the beginning but eventually everything fell into place.
I think the children will find it quite entertaining, although I think it could be a good hundred pages shorter.
I think the children will find it quite entertaining, although I think it could be a good hundred pages shorter.
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