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The Secret Life of Bees Revised Edition
Contributor(s): Kidd, Sue Monk (Author)

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ISBN: 0142001740     ISBN-13: 9780142001745
Publisher: Penguin Books
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: January 2003
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Annotation: Now in paperback comes the intoxicating debut novel of "one motherless daughter's discover of . . . the strange and wondrous places we find love" ("The Washington Post"). A bestseller in hardcover, Sue Monk Kidd's ravishing work is set in South Carolina in 1964. A movie version is forthcoming from Fox Searchlight.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Coming Of Age
- Fiction | African American - Historical
- Fiction | Family Life - General
Dewey: FIC
Age Level: 18-UP
Grade Level: 13-UP
Lexile Measure: 840(Not Available)
Physical Information: 0.61" H x 5.24" W x 7.92" L (0.50 lbs) 352 pages
Themes:
- Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
- Topical - Family
- Chronological Period - 1960's
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
- Geographic Orientation - South Carolina
- Ethnic Orientation - Multicultural
- Topical - Friendship
Features: Ikids, Price on Product
Awards: Book Sense Book of the Year Award, Winner, Paperback, 2004
Review Citations: Entertainment Weekly 02/14/2003 pg. 75
Booksense '76 Mar/Apr 2003 03/01/2003 pg. 1
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 68836
Reading Level: 5.7   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 15.0
 
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Publisher Description:
The multi-million bestselling novel about a young girl's journey towards healing and the transforming power of love, from the award-winning author of The Invention of Wings and The Book of Longings

Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. When Lily's fierce-hearted black stand-in mother, Rosaleen, insults three of the deepest racists in town, Lily decides to spring them both free. They escape to Tiburon, South Carolina--a town that holds the secret to her mother's past. Taken in by an eccentric trio of black beekeeping sister, Lily is introduced to their mesmerizing world of bees and honey, and the Black Madonna. This is a remarkable novel about divine female power, a story that women will share and pass on to their daughters for years to come.

 
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