316D: A wealthy girl and her slave

This book was about a wealthy girl in ancient Egypt(?) who has a means of exchange (maybe rings) and goes to the market to buy whatever she wishes.  She ends up purchasing a slave girl with her money.  The story is about their lives together.  

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  1. Aphra Bane

    This is definitely Boy of the Pyramids by Ruth Fosdick Jones (1952). The wealthy protagonist, Kaffe, is actually a boy but then slave he purchases with his copper rings (Sari) is a girl.

    “At any time and in any place, when there is a mystery to be solved, a ten-year-old boy will want to have a hand in it. So it was with Kaffe, an Egyptian boy of long ago. With his friend Sari, a slave-girl, Kaffe had many adventures-the harvest feast, the fight of the bulls, the flood. Then came the mystery of the pyramid’s missing jewels and a dark night when Kaffe, his father, and Sari set out to catch the thief.”

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