The Secret Life of Bees (2002) (edit title/settings)

• Rated 5 stars

“A truly amazing story”

• Rated 4 stars

“It was the perfect length, and so original. I found myself laughing out loud ”

• Rated 4 stars

“PB-B @ 2002, 1/04. Lily Owens' discovery of what family really means, set in SC in 1964, Black bee-keeping sisters in Tiburon, SC. Very good.”

• Rated 4 stars

“this book was about a little girl that runs away from home with her african american babysiter to find out about her mom because her dad always told her that her mom had left them for another man and that she killed her mother when she was going to leave them and she finds the people that knew her mother”

• Rated 3 stars

“this book takes place in a fram its about a littel girl that think she kill her mom and her dad hit her for ever thing so she ru away wet her black nany and she try to frid some of her mom family by a pictuer that her mom had left .”

• Rated 0 stars

“The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. When Lily's fierce-hearted black "stand-in mother," Rosaleen, insults three of the deepest racists in town, Lily decides to spring them both free. They escape to Tiburon, South Carolina--a town that holds the secret to her mother's past. Taken in by an eccentric trio of black beekeeping sisters, Lily is introduced to their mesmerizing world of bees and honey, and the Black Madonna.”

• Rated 4 stars

“This book made me cry a few times going to the end of the book. Even more when I found out one of the sisters died. When someone ask me hey do you know of a good book to read I always say this book because I know they will enjoy it just like I did and many also did. It’s such a true life book. I enjoyed it so much.”

• Rated 4 stars

“First of all I have to say I love this book. When I started this book I could not put it down. This book made me cry a few times going to the end of the book. Even more when I found out one of the sisters died. When someone ask me whats a good book to read I always say this book because I know they will enjoy it just like I did and many also did.”

• Rated 3 stars

“the secrect life of bees is about a girl who is deteremined to find out about her mom who she hasnt seen since she was little. she mets the sisters that knew her mom. i love the movie”

• Rated 4 stars

“begins her adventure with bees in the summer of 1964. She is fourteen years old, and she lives in Sylvan, South Carolina, with her abusive father, T. Ray, and her housekeeper, Rosaleen. Lily’s mother died when she was four years old. Her only memory of her mother is from the day she died; Lily recalls that she may have picked up a gun and accidentally killed her mother.”