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Daughters of the Lamp
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| Author | Nedda Lewers |
|---|---|
| Genre | Middle Grade – Fantasy |
| Release Date | February 20, 2024 |
| Publisher | Putnam Young Readers |
Description
Percy Jackson meets Arabian fairy tales in this stunning middle grade fantasy debut about a girl who becomes the guardian of Ali Baba’s legendary treasure.
Believe in fairy tales.
Sahara Rashad lives by logic. Loves science. And always has a plan. Except her dad just whisked her away to her uncle’s wedding in Egypt, upending every single plan she had for the summer.
In Cairo, Sahara’s days are filled with family—and mystery. First, Sahara’s cousins claim the pretentious bride-to-be is actually a witch. Then her late mother’s necklace starts glowing—and disappears.
Sahara’s attempts to recover the necklace lead her to the greatest mystery yet. Deep in an underground chamber lies Ali Baba’s magical treasure. Hidden from a line of sorcerers who threatened to use its powers for evil, the treasure was given to Sahara’s ancestor Morgana for safekeeping and passed down from mother to daughter for generations. Now only Sahara stands in the sorcerers’ way.
Can the girl who’s never believed in magic trust the unknown and claim her legacy as the treasure’s keeper?
About the Author
Nedda Lewers is an Egyptian American author and former teacher. She writes books that take children on fun adventures and feature characters who are trying to make sense of the big, complicated world and their place in it.
As a kid, Nedda lived in Queens, NY, where she spent many Sundays at the local library deciding how many books she could possibly carry on the fifteen-minute walk home. Every summer, she visited Cairo, where her parents are from, getting to know her big extended family. Even though it wasn’t easy growing up with one foot in America and the other in Egypt, Nedda cherishes how that experience has given her a rich and expansive perspective from which she draws to write her stories.
She has an MSEd from Bank Street and enjoyed a career of learning from her early childhood students. After moving to Los Angeles in 2017, she decided to focus on her writing.
Currently, she lives in Manhattan Beach, California with her husband, two daughters, and two dogs. Her favorite place to craft stories is an old but loved striped chair in her living room with her puppies nestled at her side. Daughters of the Lamp, her debut novel, will be released on February 20th, 2024 by G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers. It was recently selected by the ABA’s Indies Introduce Kids panel as a Top Ten Winter/Spring 2024 title.
Children of the Wind, the second installment in the Daughters of the Lamp series, will follow in June 2024. Nedda is repped by Kelly Dyksterhouse at the Tobias Literary Agency.
