Goosebumps 23 - Return of the Mummy

ging in an unexplored pyramid. He’s discovered an ancient, sacred tomb. And he invited me to be with him when he opens it up.”
She laughed and tilted her head a little more. “You have a good imagination, Gabe,” she said. Then she turned away to answer a man’s question.
I do have a good imagination. But I wasn’t making that up.
My Uncle Ben Hassad is a famous archaeologist. He has been digging around in pyramids for lots of years. I’ve

She kept checking on me and asking me how I was doing. But she treated me like a grown-up. She didn’t bring me one of those dumb connect-the-dots books or a plastic wings pin that they always give to kids on planes. And she kept slipping me extra bags of peanuts, even though she wasn’t supposed to.
“Why are you visiting your uncle?” Nancy asked. “Just for fun?”
I nodded. “I did it last summer, too,” I told her. “It was really awesome! But this year, Uncle Ben has been dig

practical jokes. Sometimes he dresses in weird costumes and tries to scare me.”
“You told me that your uncle was a famous scientist,” the stewardess said.
“He is,” I replied. “But he’s also weird.”
She laughed. I liked her a lot. She had pretty blond hair. And I liked the way she always tilted her head to one side when she talked.
Her name was Nancy, and she had been very nice to me during the long flight to Egypt. She knew it was my first time flying all by myself

R.L. Stine: Return of the Mummy (Goosebumps #23)
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“Gabe, we will be landing soon,” the stewardess told me, leaning over the seat. “Will someone be meeting you at the airport?”
“Yes. Probably an ancient Egyptian pharaoh,” I told her. “Or maybe a disgusting, decaying mummy.”
She narrowed her eyes at me. “No. Really,” she insisted. “Who will be meeting you in Cairo?”
“My Uncle Ben,” I replied. “But he likes to play