Mummy

Caroline B. Cooney

Aug 2012 · Open Road Media

About this eBook

DIVWill the perfect senior prank turn out to be Emlyn’s last?/divDIV
Emlyn is a good girl. She is the perfect studious and athletic daughter and sister. She studies hard, paints watercolors, and especially loves rowing crew. She doesn’t gossip. She is every parent and teacher’s dream. But Emlyn has a secret. She has an entire library in her head filled with terrifically terrible plots and schemes: jewel heists, corporate espionage, and other mischief. She successfully hides her desire to be bad from the world. That is, until Jack, Mavis, Lovell, and Donovan approach her with their idea for a senior class prank: to steal the famous mummy, Amaral-Re, from their local museum. Now Emlyn’s “mental library of Bad” will come in handy. But when the harmless heist turns out to be filled with real-life danger, will Emlyn’s mental bag of tricks be enough to save the mummy . . . and herself?/divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Caroline B. Cooney including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection./div

Ratings and reviews

There's this honor student in her high school named Emlyn. Her, always being the good girl in always being a goody-goody way,becomes curious in being bad. In thinking about stealing a mummy from an unguarded museum,she and her friends start - of what they think is an ordinary adventure - in having her to be a star in her show. Little do they know that when the time comes, things don't go as they planned it to be. As time goes by, Emlyn starts having second thoughts about stealing a mummy that's four thousand years old,is priceless,and has unappreciated historical value. Emlyn soon realizes that her friends weren't her friends after all,now that THEY also want part of it. And to do WHAT with the mummy? After stupidly hanging it on a steel wire - at some tower on Mischief Night...as a mere prank!? Emlyn starts to plead with her sanity after the fact of larceny. She seriously starts doubting herself to be good. And in the end,she understands how serious of it of what she did.

About the author

Caroline B. Cooney (b. 1947) is the author of nearly a hundred books, including the famed young adult thriller The Face on the Milk Carton, an international bestseller. Cooney’s books have been translated into several languages, and have received multiple honors and awards, including an American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults award and a nomination for the Edgar Award. She is best known for her popular teen horror thrillers and romance novels. Her fast-paced, plot-driven work often explores themes of good and evil, love and hatred, right and wrong, and moral ambiguity. Born in Geneva, New York, Cooney grew up in Connecticut, and often sets her novels in dramatic New England landscapes. She has three children and four grandchildren and currently lives in South Carolina.