The Mummy Walks

infobox Book | | name = The Mummy Walks
orig title =
translator =


author = R. L. Stine
cover_artist = Tim Jacobus
country = United States
language = English
series =
classification = fiction
genre = Horror fiction, Children's literature
publisher = Scholastic
release_date = April 1999
media_type = Print (Paperback)
pages = 119 p.
isbn =
preceded_by = Scream School
followed_by = The Werewolf in the Living Room

"The Mummy Walks" is the sixteenth book in the .

Plot

While on a plane presumably going to Orlando, Florida, a boy named Michael Clarke is given an envelope. He opens it and finds a note inside that reads, "WE ARE NOT YOUR PARENTS". What's more, he also discovers that the plane he's on is headed to a fictitious Middle Eastern country called Jezekiah, which has been plagued by war for over 12 years and is awaiting the day that their prince (who turns out to be Michael) will return and find the mummy that the rebel forces have attacked and fought the citizens of Jezekiah over for so long. Michael meets a girl named Carly Bren (who is the daughter of one of the generals) who warns him that her father is actually a member of the rebel force and is using Michael to get to Jezekiah's national treasure. Michael soon escapes when it's revealed that rebel doctors are planning to operate on his brain to remove a memory chip that was implanted in him as a baby that contains data on the exact location of the mummy. When the X-ray reveals that Michael doesn't have the memory chip, he is sent back to America, where it's revealed that the man and woman Michael called his parents were American agents hired by the Jezekian government to protect him after Michael's real parents (the King and Queen of Jezekiah) died during the 12-year war. The American agents also removed the chip from Michael's brain and hid the mummy in the basement of their house so as to throw off the rebel forces. The book ends with Michael discovering the mummy missing and a note written by Carly, apologizing that she double-crossed him and tells him that she took the mummy back to her home country.

Tagline

One small step for mummy...