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What to read after The Ancient Egyptians by David West: 24 titles sharing themes of Africa, Ancient, and Juvenile Nonfiction, chosen for mood and literary overlap.

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Dorothy Hoobler

Themes: Africa • Ancient • Juvenile Nonfiction

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Ancient Egypt for Kids

Oldrich Ruzicka

Themes: Africa • Ancient • Juvenile Nonfiction

Ancient Egypt — DK

Themes: Africa • Ancient • Juvenile Nonfiction

The Curse of the Mummy Uncovering Tutankhamun’s Tomb — Candace Fleming

The Curse of the Mummy Uncovering Tutankhamun’s Tomb

Candace Fleming

Themes: Africa • Ancient • Juvenile Nonfiction

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Themes: Africa • Ancient • Juvenile Nonfiction

Mummies and Pyramids A Nonfiction Companion to Mummies in the Morning — Will Osborne

Mummies and Pyramids A Nonfiction Companion to Mummies in the Morning

Themes: Africa • Ancient • Juvenile Nonfiction

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Mummies Exposed! Creepy and True #1

Kerrie Logan Hollihan

Themes: Africa • Ancient • Juvenile Nonfiction

You Wouldn’t Want to be a Pyramid Builder! A Hazardous Job You’d Rather Not Have — Jacqueline Morley

You Wouldn’t Want to be a Pyramid Builder! A Hazardous Job You’d Rather Not Have

Jacqueline Morley

Themes: Africa • Ancient • Juvenile Nonfiction

African Icons Ten People Who Shaped History — Tracey Baptiste

African Icons Ten People Who Shaped History

Tracey Baptiste

Themes: Africa • Ancient • Juvenile Nonfiction

Cleopatra Goddess of Egypt, Enemy of Rome — Polly Schoyer Brooks

Cleopatra Goddess of Egypt, Enemy of Rome

Polly Schoyer Brooks

Themes: Africa • Ancient • Juvenile Nonfiction

Mummies Made in Egypt — Aliki

Mummies Made in Egypt

Themes: Africa • Ancient • Juvenile Nonfiction

Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt Egyptian Mythology for Kids — Morgan E. Moroney

Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt Egyptian Mythology for Kids

Morgan E. Moroney

Themes: Africa • Ancient • Juvenile Nonfiction

A Child’s Introduction to Egyptology The Mummies, Pyramids, Pharaohs, Gods, and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt — Heather Alexander

A Child’s Introduction to Egyptology The Mummies, Pyramids, Pharaohs, Gods, and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt

Heather Alexander

Themes: Africa • Ancient • Juvenile Nonfiction

Be a Scribe! Working for a Better Life in Ancient Egypt — Michael Hoffen

Be a Scribe! Working for a Better Life in Ancient Egypt

Themes: Africa • Ancient • Juvenile Nonfiction

Factology: Ancient Egypt Open Up a World of Information! — Button Books

Factology: Ancient Egypt Open Up a World of Information!

Themes: Africa • Ancient • Juvenile Nonfiction

How We Know about the Egyptians — John James

How We Know about the Egyptians

Themes: Africa • Ancient • Juvenile Nonfiction

Ancient Egyptians — Brian Williams

Ancient Egyptians

Themes: Africa • Ancient • Juvenile Nonfiction

Tutankhamun The Tale of the Child Pharaoh and the Discovery of His Tomb — Àlex Novials

Tutankhamun The Tale of the Child Pharaoh and the Discovery of His Tomb

Themes: Africa • Ancient • Juvenile Nonfiction

On This Horrible Day in History — Terry Deary

On This Horrible Day in History

Themes: Africa • Ancient • Juvenile Nonfiction

King Tut’s Tomb Spot the Myths — Carol Kim

King Tut’s Tomb Spot the Myths

Themes: Africa • Ancient • Juvenile Nonfiction

Pharaohs and Dynasties of Ancient Egypt — Kristine Carlson Asselin

Pharaohs and Dynasties of Ancient Egypt

Kristine Carlson Asselin

Themes: Africa • Ancient • Juvenile Nonfiction

Weird But True! Know-It-All Ancient Egypt — Sarah Wassner Flynn

Weird But True! Know-It-All Ancient Egypt

Sarah Wassner Flynn

Themes: Africa • Ancient • Juvenile Nonfiction

Adventures in Time: Cleopatra, Queen of the Nile — Dominic Sandbrook

Adventures in Time: Cleopatra, Queen of the Nile

Dominic Sandbrook

Themes: Africa • Ancient • Juvenile Nonfiction

1,000 Facts about Ancient Egypt — Nancy Honovich

1,000 Facts about Ancient Egypt

Themes: Africa • Ancient • Juvenile Nonfiction

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