The secret life of bees
Title
:
The secret life of bees
Personal Author EPSB
:
Sue Monk. Kidd
Summary
:
Fourteen-year-old Lily and her companion, Rosaleen, an African-American woman who has cared from Lily since her mother's death ten years earlier, flee their home after Rosaleen is victimized by racist police officers, and find a safe haven in Tiburon, South Carolina at the home of three beekeeping sisters, May, June, and August.
Year Published
:
2002-2003
2003
Physical Description
:
xii, 302, 15 p. ; 20 cm.
Grade Interest level
:
Adult.
Subject
:
African American women -- Fiction.
Teenage girls -- Fiction.
Maternal deprivation -- Fiction.
Sisters -- Fiction.
Beekeepers -- Fiction.
Geographic Term
:
South Carolina -- Fiction.
Genre
:
Bildungsromans.
Domestic fiction.
Summary
:
Fourteen-year-old Lily and her companion, Rosaleen, an African-American woman who has cared from Lily since her mother's death ten years earlier, flee their home after Rosaleen is victimized by racist police officers, and find a safe haven in Tiburon, South Carolina at the home of three beekeeping sisters, May, June, and August.
ISBN
:
9780142001745
Publisher
:
New York : Penguin Books, 2003, c2002.
| Library | Call Number | Type | Item Barcode | Status |
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| D.S. MacKenzie | FIC KID | Book | 30522000284668 | Historical Fiction |