Hour of the Bees, Lindsay Eagar
Hour of the Bees, Lindsay Eagar
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Hour of the Bees

Author: Lindsay Eagar

Narrator: Almarie Guerra

Unabridged: 7 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 03/08/2016

Synopsis

What does it mean to be fully alive? Magic blends with reality in a stunning coming-of-age novel about a girl, a grandfather, wanderlust, and reclaiming your roots.Things are only impossible if you stop to think about them....While her friends are spending their summers having pool parties and sleepovers, twelve-year-old Carolina—Carol—is spending hers in the middle of the New Mexico desert, helping her parents move the grandfather she’s never met into a home for people with dementia. At first, Carol avoids prickly Grandpa Serge. But as the summer wears on and the heat bears down, Carol finds herself drawn to him, fascinated by the crazy stories he tells her about a healing tree, a green-glass lake, and the bees that will bring back the rain and end a hundred years of drought. As the thin line between magic and reality starts to blur, Carol must decide for herself what is possible—and what it means to be true to her roots. Readers who dream that there’s something more out there will be enchanted by this captivating novel of family, renewal, and discovering the wonder of the world.

About Lindsay Eagar

Lindsay Eagar lives with her husband and daughter in the mountains of Utah Valley, Utah. Hour of the Bees is her first novel.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Hannah on February 25, 2017

Twelve-year-old Carolina (Carol) has to spend the summer in the middle of the New Mexican desert with her family as they prepare her grandfather, Serge, to move into a care facility for elderly people with dementia. Instead of a summer filled with pool parties and barbecues, I'll be spending my days......more

Goodreads review by Kali on September 20, 2015

I read an ARC of HOUR OF THE BEES and I loved it. This is a lovely book about family and identity and heritage, about love and loss, about magic and stories and the desert--and what a desert! Eager's descriptions of the New Mexican desert are luminous, and the lonely, remote ranch is a character of......more

Goodreads review by Abby on October 21, 2015

I finished this book a week ago but have had a hard time finding words to put in a review - mostly because I'm still trying to pick my jaw up off the ground and get my brain to think of other words besides WOW. This book is totally mesmerizing. It has a wonderful setting, a fantastic group of charac......more

Goodreads review by Melanie on August 17, 2015

Lindsay Eager's debut may be unlike any other middle grade you've read. HOUR OF THE BEES is at its heart a contemporary story, but the desert of New Mexico is steeped in magic that will keep readers on their toes--what is real and what is not? How are we to judge? These are the questions Eager place......more

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