Pharaoh's Daughter
Pharaoh's Daughter: A Novel of Ancient Egypt
Pharaoh's Daughter
Julius Lester
Born into slavery, adopted as an infant by a princess, and raised in the palace of mighty Pharaoh, Moses struggles to define himself. And so do the three women who love him: his own embittered mother, forced to give him up by Pharaoh's decree; the Egyptian princess who defies her father and raises Moses as her own child; and his headstrong sister Almah, who discovers a greater kinship with the Egyptian deities than with her own God of the Hebrews. Told by Moses and his sister Almah from alternating points of view, this stunning novel by Newbery Honor-author Julius Lester probes questions of identity, faith, and destiny.

Book Details

Genre: 

  • Faith-based
  • Historical Fiction

Age Level: 

  • 12 and up
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In Pharaoh's Daughter, by Julius Lester, Almah is a Habiru girl living in a small city outside of Khemet. Her life is changed forever when she finds out that when the pharaoh Ramesses II declares that every newborn Habiru boy is to be killed-and Almah is terrified for her baby brother Yekutiel. Almah panics when the soldiers come and she approaches the hidden area of the Nile, where she sees the Khemetian princess faint at the sight of a crocodile killing one of the babies. She brings the princess into her house and her family is furious.

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