Inca Mummy Girl (novel)

The subject of this article is non-canonical. While created as part of licensed material, it has not been confirmed as part of the "real" Buffyverse continuity.

Inca Mummy Girl
Type	ELT novel
Writer(s)	Jacquie Bloese
Publication	September 19, 2005
Length	64 pages
Publisher	Scholastic
ISBN	1904720226

Inca Mummy Girl is a Buffy the Vampire Slayer novel and English language teaching reader. It was written by Jacquie Bloese, based on screenplay by Matt Kiene and Joe Reinkemeyer. It was originally published on September 19, 2005, by Scholastic.

Synopsis

Secondary ELT Readers Starter Level — Level 2

It's Cultural Exchange Week at Sunnydale High and Xander is excited! Buffy's exchange partner, Ampata, is wonderful. She's young, beautiful… and she likes Xander too! But trouble and Ampata seem to go together. Who's the man with the big knife? And why does she carry a mummy in her bag? Buffy and Giles decide to find out…

With Fact Files on the TV programme, the stars and Inca Mummies!

Summary

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Continuity

• The book is a novelization of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Inca Mummy Girl."

Appearances

Individuals

• Cordelia Chase
• Gwen Ditchik
• Rupert Giles
• Ampata Gutierrez
• Alexander Harris
• Jessica Harris (Only mentioned)
• Jonathan Levinson
• Devon MacLeish
• Rodney Munson
• Daniel Osbourne
• Willow Rosenberg
• Buffy Summers
• Joyce Summers
• Sven
• Bodyguard
• Inca Princess
• Unidentified tour guide

Organizations and titles

• Dingoes Ate My Baby
• Scooby Gang
• Slayer
• Watcher

Species

• Human
• Mummy
• Vampire (Only mentioned)

Locations

• Austria (Only mentioned)
• Iceland (Only mentioned)
• Peru (Only mentioned)
• Sweden (Only mentioned)
• United States
  • Atlanta (Only mentioned)
  • Boston (Only mentioned)
  • Los Angeles (Only mentioned)
  • New York City (Only mentioned)
  • Sunnydale
    • 1630 Revello Drive
    • Bronze
    • Hellmouth (Only mentioned)
    • Overland Charters
    • Sunnydale High School
      • Sunnydale High School library
    • Sunnydale Natural History Museum

Objects

• 2COM654
• 2GPU947
• Cursed seal

Death count

• Rodney Munson, drained of his life force by the Inca Princess at the museum.
• Ampata Gutierrez, drained of his life force by the Inca Princess at the bus station.
• The "bodyguard," drained of his life force by the Inca Princess in a school bathroom.
• The Inca princess, impeded from ingesting her life force.

Behind the scenes

Production

• The novel anthology The Xander Years, Volume 1 was the first novelization of the episode "Inca Mummy Girl."
• The cover features a promotional picture taken for Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 2, along a screenshot of the adapted episode.
• The book includes screenshots from the adapted episode throughout the story and a "fact file" section in the final pages with information on Xander, Nicholas Brendon, and Inca mummies.
• A version of the novel also features an audiobook in CD format.
• While the novel is an adaptation that simplifies the story and dialogs of the episode, some notable additions include some of the character's thoughts; the information that Buffy, Xander, and Willow went to the bus station in Xander's mother's car; and the Inca princess and the bodyguard speaking with each other in "a very old language."
• Scholastic published other two English language teaching reader based on Buffy episodes: Halloween and I Robot, You Jane.

Pop culture references

• Willow suggests Xander wears lederhosen, the traditional leather breeches from Southern Germany, Austria, South Tyrol, and Slovenia.
• Xander teaches the Inca Princess how to eat snack cakes from the brand Twinkies.
• Xander wears a costume based on characters the actor Clint Eastwood portrayed in Westerns movies.