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'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.
'How To Bee is a beautiful and fierce novel for younger readers, and the voice of Peony will stay with you long after you read the last page.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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Dedication: To all the kids who face hard times with courage, and stand tall for the ones they love.
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Awards
- 2018 shortlisted Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards — Eight to 10 Years
- 2018 shortlisted New Zealand Book Awards — Junior Fiction
- 2018 finalist Norma K. Hemming Award — Long Work
- 2018 winner CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Book of the Year: Younger Readers
- 2018 winner New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children's Books
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