• The Secret Life of Bees is a coming of age novel about a girl and her nanny during the civil rights movement. Fourteen-year-old Lily runs away with her nanny and find acceptance among a trio of sisters who are bee-keepers.

  The film version, The Secret Life of Bees starring Dakota Fanning, Jennifer Hudson, Alicia Keys and Queen Latifah, was released in October 2008.Mercury News: Secret Life of Bees (October 13, 2008)

• Fast Facts

  1. Author: Sue Monk Kidd
  2. Genre: Fiction
  3. Publication Date: January 2003
  4. Publisher: Penguin Publishing
  5. Pages: 336
  6. ISBN: 9780142001745
  7. A New York Times bestseller
  8. 2003: SEBA Award for Best Fiction Novel

• Plot Synopsis

  • The story follows Lily Owens, a young girl raised by an abusive father in the 1960s. Lily believes that her mother had died at a young age, but her father tells her that she abandoned them. At the same time, Lily's nanny, Rosaleen had been imprisoned and beaten for insulting a group of racist white men. Lily decides to run away from home and breaks Rosaleen out of prison. They hitchhike to Tiburon, South Carolina, a town Lily's mother had once written about. They two take up residence at an apiary and Lily encounters the truth about her mother.

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