![]() ![]() She’s smart, sarcastic and totally in favor of “Me, Myself and I.” She is her number one priority if only because, as an orphan slave, she has no one else who cares for her and if she doesn’t look out for No 1 then no one else will. She’s not going to be helped by her pet friends Sobie the Crocodile and Anubie the Jackal. ![]() It’s YA but Mara is not a sweet, gentle Disney Princess type of heroine. With people looking for unusual historical settings and reading YA, I thought now would be a great time to give it a whirl. For years I’d heard it mentioned with enthusiasm by everyone who commented on it. I bought myself a copy of this book last year when I got “Catherine, Called Birdy.” I read “Birdy” but somehow “Mara” got set to the side and it drifted out of my mind. Jayne B Reviews ancient-Egypt / Historical / slavery / spy / unusual setting / Young-Adult 15 Comments ![]() JREVIEW: Mara – Daughter of the Nile by Eloise Jarvis McGraw ![]()
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