Even though she has shared her mother’s feminist ideals, she’s hurt by her mother’s apparent selfishness and the seeming ease with which she abandoned the family. Their mother is an ambitious, career-oriented feminist, and when she was offered an important job working for a congressman in Oregon, she could not bring herself to turn it down in order to go to Maine with the rest of the family.Īlthough the entire family talked the situation over, and everyone agreed to the current arrangements, no one is really happy about it. Moving and starting over in a new place is never easy, but the move is more difficult for the kids because their mother didn’t come with them.
Twelve-year-old Phineas Hall and his fifteen-year-old sister, Althea, have recently moved to Maine with their father, Professor Hall, because he got a job working at the small Vandemark College. The story includes a bit of history about Ancient Egypt and side plots about the complications of family life, the role of women in society, and the nature of ambition. The Vandemark Mummy is an exciting mystery with believable characters. The Vandemark Mummy by Cynthia Voigt, 1991.
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