Thrilled to announce my latest middle grade project: “Polo Orozco at Putnam has acquired The Great Ramzys by Nedda Lewers (Daughters of the Lamp), a middle grade mystery pitched as The Swifts meets The Westing Game. The story follows an 11-year-old girl who must unmask which of the famed Egyptologists gathered at her grandmother’s Luxor mansion has stolen Nefertiti’s legendary […]
I am beyond thrilled that Bank Street’s Children’s Book Committee has selected Daughters of the Lamp as one of 2025’s Best Children’s Books. This honor is especially meaningful because I spent four beautiful years as a graduate student at Bank Street’s College of Education.
Thank you to the American Library Association for selecting my debut for grades 3-5 and helping it reach more readers!
Could not be more thrilled to see DAUGHTERS OF THE LAMP on the USA TODAY BESTSELLERS’ LIST for the week it came out in paperback AND during Arab American Heritage Month. May all children see themselves in the books they read and as the heroes of their own stories.
Thank you, School Library Journal, for the wonderful starred review! As a longtime educator, this means so much to me ❤️❤️❤️. Read the full review here.
Thank you to all who came out and celebrated the debut of Daughters of the Lamp at my wonderful local bookstore, Pages, in Manhattan Beach. It was a night I will never forget ❤️❤️❤️!
Check out 👀 the amazing TRAILER the wonderful marketing team at PYR made for Daughters of the Lamp.
Thank you, American Booksellers Association, for selecting Daughters of the Lamp as an INDIES NEXT LIST pick for March/April 2024. I am beyond grateful 🙏 for all the support of the independent bookstores’ community. See the full list of selected titles here.
Daughters of the Lamp is one of BOOK RIOT’S BEST NEW CHILDREN’S BOOKS of February 2024. Thank you 🙏 so much, Book Riot! See the complete list of children’s titles here.
Thrilled to announce that Daughters of the Lamp is one of Amazon’s BEST CHILDREN’S BOOKS OF FEBRUARY 2024 in the 9-12 age category.
Nedda Lewers is a USA Today bestselling 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.