Once
again, Caroline Cooney has managed to weave a fascinating tale of
suspense in her latest book, MUMMY. A beautiful Egyptian mummy has
disappeared from the museum. No one suspects that Emlyn, the girl
who never gets in trouble, is the thief.

Emlyn is a good girl with a bad streak. She yearns to be a
brilliant thief and commit the perfect crime. She keeps a library
in her head of "wrong things to do, and how to do them." She makes
mental notes of places to stash loot, of situations crying out for
blackmail, or trust where there should be locks.

When her friends suggest stealing the Egyptian mummy from the
museum and hoisting it up to the old high school's bell tower,
Emlyn is ready. A crime such as this is what she's been waiting for
all of her life. As Jack says, "Our senior class has to pull off a
really exceptional trick for Mischief Night."

However, the director of the museum, Dr. Harris Brisband, is
accused of the theft. Moreover, it turns out that greed is
motivating her friends as much as the people on the museum board.
Emlyn loves and respects the mummy, Princess Amaral-Re. She cannot
bear to see it sawed up and the gold adorning its body taken.

Will Emlyn do the right thing? What exactly is the right thing to
do? Emlyn thinks of a creative and unusual solution to her problem
of what to do with the mummy and hopes it will work.

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