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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
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"). Sue Monk Kidd's ravishing work is set in South Carolina in 1964.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Helen Jukes is entering her thirties and feeling disconnected and trapped by her office job. Then, for good luck, she is given a colony of honeybees. According to folklore, a colony, freely given, brings good fortune, and the author embarks on an emotional, rewarding journey during the course of a year as she cares for these wondrous beings and learns the art of beekeeping." --
Author
Publisher
Clavis Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Description
An enlightening and informative book about beekeepers and what they do. For children ages 5 years and up. The beekeeper knows a lot about bees, from constructing hives to taking care of the insects to collecting honey. When there's a lot of sunshine and many flowers, it becomes all buzzy business . . . And did you know that without bees, we wouldn't be able to enjoy delicious fruits and vegetables?
Author
Series
Publisher
Harpercollins Christian Pub
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"A strange, mystical place allows Deborah and Phineas to see themselves and others with new eyes. When Deborah Lantz arrives in Bee County, Texas, she expects to find a great oasis of citrus groves and olive trees. Instead, she finds a tiny Amish district struggling to make ends meet on a barren, drought-stricken land. Deborah longs to go home to the lush, green countryside of Tennessee, but she wants her mother, a widow with six children, to be...
10) Queen bee
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Immerse yourself in the enchanting world of New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank's Carolina Lowcountry in this evocative tale that returns at long last to her beloved Sullivan's Island. Beekeeper Holly McNee Kensen quietly lives in a world of her own on Sullivan's Island, tending her hives and working at the local island library. Holly calls her mother The Queen Bee because she's a demanding hulk of a woman. Her mother, a devoted...
11) The Beeman
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
NC 630L
Language
English
Description
In rhyming text, a child describes the work Grandpa does to take care of honeybees and harvest the honey they make.
12) Chalice
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
1070L
Language
English
Description
A beekeeper by trade, Mirasol's life changes completely when she is named the new Chalice, the most important adviser to the new Master, a former priest of Fire.
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"In the spirit of Station Eleven and Never Let Me Go, this dazzling and ambitious literary debut follows three generations of beekeepers from the past, present, and future, weaving a spellbinding story of their relationship to the bees--and to their children and one another--against the backdrop of an urgent, global crisis. England, 1852. William is a biologist and seed merchant, who sets out to build a new type of beehive--one that will give both...
15) The honeybee man
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 660L
Language
English
Description
Fred, a beekeeper whose hives are on the roof of his Brooklyn, New York, apartment building, tends his bees and distributes their honey to his neighbors. Includes facts about bees and beekeepers.
16) Beekeepers
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young girl helps her grandfather tend his bee hives one morning in spring.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Nuri is a beekeeper; his wife, Afra, an artist. They live a simple life, rich in family and friends, in the beautiful Syrian city of Aleppo--until the unthinkable happens. When all they care for is destroyed by war, they are forced to escape. But what Afra has seen is so terrible she has gone blind, and so they must embark on a perilous journey through Turkey and Greece towards an uncertain future in Britain. As Nuri and Afra travel through a broken...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"It's a real buzz-kill when [Moraine, Wisconsin] beekeeper Story Fischer gets a visit from her frantic sister, desperate for help hosting a combative trio of employees that Holly's husband, Max, has brought home for a weekend of R and R. Good thing the well-stocked shelves of Story's grocery store, the Wild Clover, can provide assistance. During an afternoon tour of Story's hives, however, one of the guests drops dead. Just what Story needs only days...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
After an injury forced her to leave the police department, Abigail Mackenzie started a second career as a farmer. Raising chickens, harvesting honey from her bee colony, and growing heirloom vegetables on her farmette in the beautiful Bay Area town of Las Flores, Abby has embraced all the benefits of a peaceful life. But when she attempts to deliver her trademark honey to local pastry chef Jean-Louis Bonheur and finds him dead in his shop, her old...