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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book in the beginning of the year because I had recently gone to Egypt. This book was a very thought out perspective on the biblical story of Moses. Instead of the story being told from one point of view, it is rather told from Moses and his sister Almah. I thought that this book was ver...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80895801">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was the second book I chose to read for my History Class. This book was mainly about two Habiru children named Almah and Mosis. An egyptian princess named Meryetamun rescues Mosis and Mosis becomes the prophet of his people and tries to find his true self. Meanwhile, his sister Almah finds hers...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69580596">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I love historical fiction, and this book didn't dissapoint. Lester uses familiar biblical characters and creates and explores an interesting world that adds intrigue to their lives. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My class is currently reading Pharaoh's Daughter and I love it! It teaches alot about Ancient Egyptian Pharaohs and Antient Egyptian life.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Ancient Egypt and the story of Moses, so I really enjoyed this book]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I think I might read this over again]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I really liked this book it was so interesting. It was about a girl named Almah who lives in Goshen and meets a princess who is the daughter of Ramssess the great.The princess takes Almah and her family to the palace.And the book also talks about how Almah and her family change form living in the pa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18807216">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[is a good book<br/><br/>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I think this was a nice book, but at the same time it was strange.  I think the author did too much research into the book that made it sound like he didn't do any research at all.  It was just weird plot line...but if u are bored and nothing to do...then it is fine.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I thought this book was very interesting, surprising and well-written. My only concern was that I didn't think he finished the story clearly enough. But, besides that it was such an amazing book and story too!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book. (Well, also maybe its because I'm into the whole ancient Egyptian obssession). xD<br/>~Sachi &lt;3]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Well researched fictional account of life in Egypt during the time of Moses. Bibliography provided.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book, especially the first part, but it was all very powerful.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Pharaoh's Daughter: A Novel of Ancient Egypt]]>
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    <![CDATA[In his introduction to this engrossing novel of ancient Egypt, Julius Lester says, &quot;It is difficult not to see Charlton Heston when one thinks of Moses.&quot; But not in this book. Lester's Moses is a bungling teenager, scared and confused as he tries to find the courage to decide who he is and what he believes in. Raised as the pampered grandson of Pharaoh, he enjoys the attentions of three mother figures: Yocheved, his birth mother, who constantly implores him to return to his own people; Almah, his older sister, who has left her traditions to dance naked as a priestess of the goddess Hathor; and Batya, Pharoah's daughter, who saved him from death when he was a baby. But now his anger at his unresolved split identity has goaded him into a terrible act of violence--an act that will have a vast impact on history. <p>  Julius Lester, a distinguished African-American writer best known for his Newbery Honor Book <em>To Be a Slave</em>, startled the literary world in 1981 by converting to Judaism. In <em>Pharaoh's Daughter</em> he follows the time-honored Jewish tradition of Midrash--a way of exploring a sacred text through the use of one's imagination. Armed with an impressive knowledge of the Hebrew language and the history of ancient Egypt, he jolts us out of our expectations and brings a fresh and richly detailed perspective to the Exodus. As Moses flees with his father's blessing--&quot;You must go and come back and teach us all to be free&quot;--we can only hope that Julius Lester plans to tell the rest of the story. (Ages 12 and older) <em>--Patty Campbell</em> </p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Re-telling of Moses story.]]></body>
    
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