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HOW TO BEE
How To Bee is a beautiful and fierce novel for middle grade readers. Set against an all-too-possible future where real bees are extinct and the quickest, bravest kids climb the fruit trees to pollinate the flowers by hand, How To Bee explores the subsequent social landscape with an intensely compelling and original voice. Encompassing themes of equality, diversity, loyalty, love, kindness and value, How to Bee is raw, interesting and page-turning. The protagonist, Peony, is courageous and intelligent. Her voice will stay with you long after you read the last page.
Peony lives with her sister and grandfather on a fruit farm outside the city. All Peony really wants is to be a Bee – to use her strength and agility to pollinate the flowers and ensure a bumper fruit crop – because in Peony’s world, real bees are extinct. Life on the farm is a scrabble, but there is enough to eat and a place to sleep, and there is love. Then Peony’s mother arrives to take her away from everything she has ever known, and all Peony’s grit and quick thinking might not be enough to keep her safe.
The intense and original voice of this novel grabbed me from the first sentence and held me to the last. It’s a beautiful, fierce little novel that will appeal strongly to younger readers. Booksellers will love hand-selling this to fans of Rebecca Stead and Julie Hunt.
Bren MacDibble was raised on farms all over New Zealand, so is an expert about being a kid on the land. She now lives in Melbourne with her family and a cheeky dog, works with gifted children, and teaches writing at TAFE.
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Published 2017-05-01 by Allen & Unwin |