April did not become Neferbeth. April took the Egyptian name Bastet. When the children are choosing hieroglyphs to symbolize their names, April remembers a cat goddess with earrings, Bastet, and chooses that name and symbol for herself.
Elizabeth Chung, a new girl who moves into the Casa Rosada, joins the Egypt game and becomes Neferbeth. Elizabeth is nine years old and Asian American. Shortly after April and Melanie allow Elizabeth to join the Egypt game, April catches a glimpse of Elizabeth sitting on the railing and looking up Orchard Avenue. In profile view, with her porcelain skin and jet black hair pulled away from her slender neck in a ponytail, Elizabeth looks surprisingly like Nefertiti, the ancient Egyptian queen, or so April thinks. The next time they get together to play the Egypt game, Elizabeth plays the role of Queen Neferbeth and Marshall finally gets to play the role of the young Pharaoh, Marshamosis. "Neferbeth" is a blend of the names Nefertiti and Elizabeth.
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