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Miriam at the River

by Jane Yolen, Khoa Le

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Seven-year-old Miriam places her baby brother's basket in the Nile River, watches the Pharoah's daughter draw him out and name him Moses, and ponders a vision of other water parting. Includes note on the biblical story on which this is based.

Children's fictionJews, history, fictionEgypt, fictionJuvenile fictionHistory of Biblical eventsBrothers and sistersJewsHistoryEnglish Bible storiesOld TestamentCivilizationFiction