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Format:
Book
Title:
Hour of the bees
ISBN:
9780605933514

9780763679224

9780763691202

9781536422634

9781537973456
Edition:
First edition.
Publication:
Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2016.
Physical Description:
360 pages ; 22 cm
Summary:
While her friends are spending their summers having pool parties and sleepovers, twelve-year-old Carolina Carol is spending hers in the middle of the New Mexico desert, helping her parents move the grandfather she's never met into a home for people with dementia. At first, Carol avoids prickly Grandpa Serge. But as the summer wears on and the heat bears down, Carol finds herself drawn to him, fascinated by the crazy stories he tells her about a healing tree, a green-glass lake, and the bees that will bring back the rain and end a hundred years of drought. As the thin line between magic and reality starts to blur, Carol must decide for herself what is possible and what it means to be true to her roots.
Reading Level:
Ages 10-14.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.5 9.0 182961.

Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning MG 4.5 9.0 182961.
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