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See more books from this AuthorGideon, 12, and his ne'er-do-well-father (``the professor'') are traveling down the Mississippi performing a hokey vaudeville act starring George--an authentic 4,000-year-old mummy, the closest thing Gideon has to a friend, that's a souvenir from better times, when the professor worked at the US ...
| Read Full Review of Gideon and the Mummy ProfessorSet among Mississippi river towns in 1855 and laden with period atmosphere, Karr's latest introduces 12-year-old hero who grudgingly looks after his father, the ``Mummy Professor'' who lectures on Egypt and the pharoahs.
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