How to bee / Bren MacDibble.

By: MacDibble, Bren [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin Children's Books, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: 212 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781760294335; 1760294330Other title: How to beSubject(s): Farm life -- Juvenile fiction | Climatic changes -- Juvenile fiction | Kindness -- Juvenile fiction | Extinct animals -- Juvenile fiction | Bees -- Juvenile fiction | Pollination -- Juvenile fiction | Mothers and daughters -- Juvenile fictionGenre/Form: Australian fiction. | Dystopian fiction. Summary: Sometimes bees get too big to be up in the branches, sometimes they fall and break their bones. This week both happened and Foreman said, 'Tomorrow we'll find two new bees.' Peony lives with her sister and grandfather on a fruit farm outside the city. In a world where real bees are extinct, the quickest, bravest kids climb the fruit trees and pollinate the flowers by hand. All Peony really wants is to be a bee. 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.
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Age 8-12.

Sometimes bees get too big to be up in the branches, sometimes they fall and break their bones. This week both happened and Foreman said, 'Tomorrow we'll find two new bees.' Peony lives with her sister and grandfather on a fruit farm outside the city. In a world where real bees are extinct, the quickest, bravest kids climb the fruit trees and pollinate the flowers by hand. All Peony really wants is to be a bee. 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.

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