TY  - BOOK
AU  - May,Meredith
TI  - The honey bus: a memoir of loss, courage and a girl saved by bees 
SN  - 9780778309758 (paperback)
U1  - 638.1092 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Toronto, Ontario
PB  - Park Row Books
KW  - May, Meredith.
KW  - Women beekeepers
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - Beekeepers
KW  - Children of divorced parents
KW  - Grandparent and child
KW  - Bee culture
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Bees
KW  - fast
KW  - Autobiographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes questions for discussion; Nonfiction; Baker & Taylor
N2  - Meredith May recalls the first time a honeybee crawled on her arm. She was five years old, her parents had recently split and suddenly she found herself in the care of her grandfather, an eccentric beekeeper who made honey in a rusty old military bus in the yard. That first close encounter was at once terrifying and exhilarating for May. Everything she needed to know about life and family was right before her eyes, in the secret world of bees. May turned to her grandfather and the art of beekeeping as an escape from her troubled reality. The bees became a guiding force in May's life, teaching her about family and survival, and it was during this pivotal time in May's childhood that she learned to take care of herself. Part family story, part beekeeping odyssey, this book is a rich and lyrical memoir of a girl who journeyed into the hive -- and found herself
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