Theodosia Throckmorton has her hands full at the Museum of Legends and Antiquities in London. Her father may be head curator, but it is Theo—and on...
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Aug 22, 2010
Julie (Klickitat)
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Like Roald Dahl's Matilda before her, Theodosia Throckmorton can't get any respect. At the young age of eleven she already has a formidable knowledge of Egyptian theology and black magic but her parents are too consumed with running their museum of antiquities to notice. Even worse, the elder Throckmortons often unwittingly place themselves in harm's way, forcing Theodosia to rescue them (but always behind the scenes in order to spare their pride.) I think kids will love the many jabs at adults'
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Nov 13, 2008
Rfrancik
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Theodosia sees evil spells and spirits. Her methods of dealing with these problems as well as her eventual meeting with other people who recognize their presence and are committed to keeping them from harming England and the World makes for an exciting adventure.
I was quite taken with this new book published in 2007. Theodosia a child often neglected by her loving but preoccupied archologist parents sees and feels evil spells. Her parents who do not share her ability continue to b More...
I was quite taken with this new book published in 2007. Theodosia a child often neglected by her loving but preoccupied archologist parents sees and feels evil spells. Her parents who do not share her ability continue to b More...
Jul 26, 2008
Samantha
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Theodosia is a charming character that is very clever; although, no adults seem to take her seriously. She still manages to take curses of artifacts that her mother, an archeologist, ships back from Egypt. One of the artifacts has a curse so powerful it could cause problems for all of England. Theodosia teams up with a street thief and Lord Wigmore (the head of a secret society) to stop the group The Serpents of Chaos and to return the artifact. I absolutely loved this book. I couldn't put
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Dec 26, 2011
Emily
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This book's been out for years, and I'd held off on reading it due to a suspicion of recentish children's books in which the main character has an excessively funky name and the name's included in the title--there've just been so many, as if the funky name alone will suck kids in or make the story "interesting." It's a very fun read, set in the early 1900s in London (well, mostly in London). Theodosia's father heads up a museum of antiquities; her mum's on a dig in Egypt, and her fathe
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Aug 21, 2011
Kurt
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Theodosia, our eleven-year old, intrepid, curse-spotting heroine, is smart beyond her years. The eldest child of the Head Curator of a second-rate museum (in stature only - not in collection) and the daughter of two Egyptologists, she is not only functionally fluent in the deciphering of hieroglyphics, she reads all the Olde Textes that explain Egyptian curse magic and whips up protective amulets whenever necessary.
Also, she sleeps in a sarcophagus.
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Also, she sleeps in a sarcophagus.
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May 16, 2011
Sensitivemuse
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Think of a combination of Nancy Drew and a little bit of Indiana Jones and you have Theo. I really did enjoy reading this book. It had a perfect blend of mystery, adventure, and paranormal characteristics that made the book enjoyable for all ages.
Not only was Theo not a typical girl but she was curious, outspoken, and an adventure seeker who was not afraid of getting into danger. Her unique gift of finding the ancient curses and dispelling them is fun and different and I enjoyed her More...
Not only was Theo not a typical girl but she was curious, outspoken, and an adventure seeker who was not afraid of getting into danger. Her unique gift of finding the ancient curses and dispelling them is fun and different and I enjoyed her More...
Jun 20, 2010
Kate
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There are a dreadful number of booktalks rising up in me about this book: "Imagine Gilda Joyce as a Victorian egyptologist's daughter with curse-fighting powers" or "Having trouble with ancient curses? Theodosia to the rescue!" or "Sleeping in a sarcophagus is surprisingly effective at protecting you from ancient Egyptian curses. When you have to sleep in a museum filled with said curses, of course, as Theodosia Throckmorton does."
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Feb 26, 2010
Tamra
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Not sold. After reading (and not finishing) Percy Jackson, I thought all I needed was a change up in mythology. I love Egyptian anything, so Theodosia seemed a sure bet. Not so much, though. Unlike Percy Jackson, this one is NOT well-written.
The main character and narrator is a bookish 11-year-old whose language usage isn't fitting either for a too-smart youngster, or a 1905 character. Plus, I have serious doubts that ANY 11-year-old would be reading hieroglyphs, daughter of the More...
The main character and narrator is a bookish 11-year-old whose language usage isn't fitting either for a too-smart youngster, or a 1905 character. Plus, I have serious doubts that ANY 11-year-old would be reading hieroglyphs, daughter of the More...
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Jan 11, 2012
Jennifer
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This was an enjoyable cross between the mythology/magic aspect of Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson books, the dry British-like humor of The Mysterious Benedict Society, and the genius girl quirkiness of Roald Dahl's Matilda. It lacked the ongoing action excitement of the Percy Jackson novels, at least until the climax, instead featuring clever quips. Like the Percy Jackson novels, it would be a great book for kids to read in conjunction with learning about history and myths. It was also refreshin
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May 04, 2010
K.
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Theodesia is the eleven year old daughter of adventurous archeologists who work for a museum. Her mother gallivants off to Egypt to open tombs and extract artifacts. Her father catalogs them.
Theodesia is mostly left to herself to rattle around the museum. Which is a good thing, because she's the only one in her family who can see/feel the black magic curses that are often on all the artifacts her mother brings home!
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Theodesia is mostly left to herself to rattle around the museum. Which is a good thing, because she's the only one in her family who can see/feel the black magic curses that are often on all the artifacts her mother brings home!
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Feb 09, 2012
Kendra
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Okay, if Elizabeth Peters and the creator of "The Mummy" movies had a love-child, it would probably be in the form of Theodosia Throckmorton. I must be on an Egyptian kick as of late, because this book reminded me of an Elizabeth Peters mystery for middle-grade readers, with a twist of magical curses to give it some spice. Theodosia was a delightful character whose wit and bravery was just as entertaining as Amelia Peabody. There's something about a storyline involving Egypt that takes
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Apr 26, 2010
Erica
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Now *this* is a heroine I can get behind! Theo is clever, observant, snarky, and -- my favorite trait of all -- ingeniously resourceful, all without seeming like *too* much of a stretch for being only eleven years old. The plot is well thought-out, scary in all the right spots, and sets the series up very nicely.
My only quibble (which gets substantially larger in the second novel) is the behavior of the adults. While I accept that a certain amount of (at the very least) benign n More...
My only quibble (which gets substantially larger in the second novel) is the behavior of the adults. While I accept that a certain amount of (at the very least) benign n More...
Nov 02, 2011
Brett
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Theodosia Throckmorton enjoys her life essentially living in a vast, shabby museum in London with her slightly irritable curator father &, occasionally, her archaeologist adventuress mother & annoying younger brother (often at a dig & boarding school, respectively). However, there's one complication - she can sense the powerful & often dangerous curses that ancient magicians have put on many of the Egyptian artifacts surrounding her family. Theodosia seems to be the only person in her family or
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Oct 19, 2011
Erica
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This was adorable! I SO would have eaten it up at 10-12 years-old! I think the reader, Charlotte Perry, made it even more delightful.
I liked Theodosia's spunk and cleverness; I'm a sucker for headstrong, independent, creative heroines. I also like that it's strongly hinted that she has access to magic that most people don't and that the Egyptian gods and goddesses are watching over her, but that's not central to her point of view - she knows she has skills and she assumes most people do or More...
I liked Theodosia's spunk and cleverness; I'm a sucker for headstrong, independent, creative heroines. I also like that it's strongly hinted that she has access to magic that most people don't and that the Egyptian gods and goddesses are watching over her, but that's not central to her point of view - she knows she has skills and she assumes most people do or More...
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Jun 16, 2009
Theodosia Throckmorton spends most of her time in the Museum of Legends and Antiquities where her father is the curator and her mother is one of the archaeologists. It's the best museum in London (better than the British Museum, anyway, which everyone always goes on about).
Even though Theo is only 11, she has a special talent: she can sense and deal with all of the nasty curses that are living on the ancient Egyptian artifacts that her mother brings back for the museum. This takes u More...
Even though Theo is only 11, she has a special talent: she can sense and deal with all of the nasty curses that are living on the ancient Egyptian artifacts that her mother brings back for the museum. This takes u More...
Aug 18, 2010
Stephanie
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Jul 04, 2010
Julie
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The premise is good. A smart girl in the early 1900's who basically lives in a London museum. She can sense curses and knows a lot about Egyptian ones in particular. And she gets caught up with secret societies and whatnot. And accidentally transfers a curse into her cat.
But it had trouble holding my interest, because most of the time, I simply didn't care about what was going on. Oh, she's sneaking around. Oh, she's being followed. Blah blah blah.
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But it had trouble holding my interest, because most of the time, I simply didn't care about what was going on. Oh, she's sneaking around. Oh, she's being followed. Blah blah blah.
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Jan 26, 2010
Nikki (Wicked Awesome Books)
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Theodosia Throckmorton spends most of her days in the Museum of Legends and Antiquities. Her father is the Head Curator of the museum and her mom is quite the archaeological excavator. She digs up sites all over Egypt, attempting to find lost and ancient artifacts. What her parent don’t realize, is that the artifacts they dig up and display in the museum, hold ancient curses and are shrouded in black magic. Theodosia has the job of keeping her parents safe by getting rid of these curses, but bec
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Jun 10, 2011
Cornelia
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This is a childrens book serries (like Harry Potter is) and I adore them. Mad about them. Set in the year 1900, Theodosia is an 11 year old girl with a gift for detecting what Egyptian relics have curses and she's devised ways to rid the objects of their curses. You see she lives in London, her father is the curator of a museum with eyptian objects and her mother (an American) is the museum's egytologist and brings these relics back from her digs in Egypt (not knowing they are curesed) Only Theo
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Jan 19, 2009
Kelly
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I loved this book![return][return]My first clue I was going to love it was the dedication: "To clever girls everywhere who get tired of feeling like no one's listening."[return][return]Theo is nothing if not a clever little girl. But she's also deliciously sassy, which kept me chuckling throughout the book.[return][return]The book is set in London in the early twentieth century, and I'm a sucker for British language in a children's book (thank you, J.K. Rowling)—lots of "bother"
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Feb 04, 2010
Elizabeth (Miss Eliza)
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In the Museum of Legends and Antiquities Theodosia is trying to control the forces of chaos that wish to harm others through the curses and hexes contained in the various items on display throughout the museum. She is beset with the forces of darkness and the feeling of beetles scurrying up and down her spine that doesn't seem to affect anyone else there... even her father who was injured by one such nasty curse with a tumble down the stairs. It doesn't help much that she spends every waking (an
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Oct 04, 2009
Debby
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Kira recommended this one to me. The blurb on the cover from Booklist says it's a sure bet for Harry Potter fans. I read it over a few days while on vacation. Definitely fun. I was a bit bothered by the first-person narrator's tone but I imagine its target audience would enjoy the preteen crankiness. It got better. I LOVE that the main character is a girl (11 years old, at that!) and while there is some acknowledgement of the restrictions of an Edwardian society, she's a vibrant and adventurous
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Aug 19, 2010
Kathryn
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Clearly I was surprised when I slowly but definitely started to love this book around half way through it.
At first you just have to get use to our heroine, Theodosia's (what a big name for an eleven year old girl!) ranting about how her parents treat hear unfarely.
How she thinks they don't listen to her or respect her, and her constant need for validation is what gets her into this crazy adventure. (I think)
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At first you just have to get use to our heroine, Theodosia's (what a big name for an eleven year old girl!) ranting about how her parents treat hear unfarely.
How she thinks they don't listen to her or respect her, and her constant need for validation is what gets her into this crazy adventure. (I think)
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Dec 21, 2010
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Dec 15, 2011
Ami
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Theodosia is a smart girl who spends most of her time in a museum ridding Egyptian artifacts of curses and dark magic. She also occasionally sleeps in a sarcophagus with her cat named Isis, which only makes me love her all the more.
While this book is mostly a plot driven story, the reader is able to feel Theodosia's isolation and vulnerability from being quasi-neglected by her intellectual parents. These small glimpses into the heroine create a richer feel to the novel as a whole. Hopefu More...
While this book is mostly a plot driven story, the reader is able to feel Theodosia's isolation and vulnerability from being quasi-neglected by her intellectual parents. These small glimpses into the heroine create a richer feel to the novel as a whole. Hopefu More...
Nov 17, 2010
Deborah
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What a darling book for 'tweeners! Theodosia is just the most precocious little girl who lives in a museum with her absent-minded curator/researcher of a father and a motley crew of others. She is the most awake and aware of the dangers seeping the bowels of the museum, of course, and she's bountifully to the rescue!
I loved Theodosia and her funny ways...so smart and sassy...so Nancy Drew on steroids. I can't wait for my little granddaughters to get old enough for Grammie to send More...
I loved Theodosia and her funny ways...so smart and sassy...so Nancy Drew on steroids. I can't wait for my little granddaughters to get old enough for Grammie to send More...
Apr 06, 2009
Samantha
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Theodosia's parents run a museum of antiquities in London. Her parents really enjoy bringing back artifacts from Egypt for the museum's collection. What they cannot see, however, are the black magic and curses that are ingrained on these items. Theodosia can. Set just before WWI, this book shows what happens when Theodosia's mom brings back the Heart of Egypt, an object of black magic so powerful, it could bring down the entire British empire. Can Theodosia stop it?
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Jul 27, 2009
I really enjoyed this one, primarily for Theodosia's character/voice and the overall concept: an girl who practically lives in a museum of antiquities, where she has to secretly defuse all the horrible curses her archeologist parents unknowingly unlock (and don't believe in). And I love that aside from the excitement of artifacts and spies and so on, there's this underlying but powerful internal thread: really what Theo wants is to know her parents love her and value her more than the artifacts.
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Jan 23, 2012
Claudia
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I've been listening to a lot of kids books recently because the kids like it when they can talk to me about what they are reading. This is one of the books I got Diva for Christmas. It's OK. Part of my issue is that the narrator sort of sounded like Lisa Simpson doing an English accent. That took a little while to get over. As for the book, again it was OK. It took a while for the ball get really get rolling and then just as it did, it went down the predictable path. That might be in part d
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Apr 22, 2010
Pamela
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I'd been looking for an adventure series with a female protagonist for my daughter, and Edwardian Egyptologist Theodosia fits the bill nicely.Theodosia is a dryly humorous 11-year old who combines elements of Flinders Petrie with Sherlock Holmes and Hermione Granger and relies on intelligence and intuition to get herself out of numerous scrapes, with minor assistance provided by the local secret society and major obstruction from her parents and grandmother. The first book of the series starts
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