Review by Lydia, Mordiford CE Primary School Hereford
I was grabbed straight away by the title of this book and wanted to read it immediately!

The book is set in 1941 and Rosie Raja has been helping her father, who is a spy. As a consequence, Rosie has been learning some spy tricks herself. Now, she has her own dangerous mission in Cairo, where she must find the traitors and make sure they can’t damage the country any more.

Rosie is a fantastic character: she is smart, brave and rather complicated! She is very good at thinking on her feet. She needs to outwit a kidnapper and work out just who is good and who is bad.

My favourite character was Fatima: she is so knowledgeable about Egyptian history but will she be clever enough to help Rosie escape from the traitors?

My least favourite characters were the traitors because they were working for the Nazis by spying on Rosie’s father, and giving away British secrets.

There was so much to learn in this story: facts about WW2 (but not just about what happened in Europe like we learn in school) describing all about life in the exotic and history packed world of Egypt. The story also uses real historical people who lived in those times. But this is not a dull history book, it is a book of adventures with so many twists and turns, and a clever and daring female main character who any reader would want to be!

I would love to visit Egypt after reading this exciting story but in the meantime, am looking forward to reading the next adventure of the brave Rosie!

Review by Harrison, Sheen Mount Primary School, Richmond
I love this book because of all the plot twists it has and how you never know who will be the double agent. It is about a girl called Rosie Raja (who is the princess of India) and her father going on a mission to keep Egypt’s archaeological findings safe (mainly Tutankhamun’s mummy and items from his tomb) even though they probably cannot take anything because the government won't allow them. That also links to one of the friends she made but they were not always friends.

A girl called Fatima did not like Rosie Raja because she found out that they were going to take Tutankhamun’s mummy and items from his tomb away from them and she believed that they could not as they belonged to the people of Egypt. In reality, Rosie wanted thought that they wouldn't take anything because they probably weren't allowed but she also believed that they were protecting them from the Nazis. Little did Fatima know that her father knew about Rosie and her father because her father was a friend of Fatima’s father, Ajay.