| 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 OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2003 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 |
| Lexile Measure: 840 |
| Physical Information: 0.61" H x 5.24" W x 7.92" (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 |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 68836 Reading Level: 5.7 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 15.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| 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. |