briefer but just as impactful and enduring as his longer fiction

Marooned in the Arctic includes sidebars on relevant topics of interest to teens

but also he exposes the reasoning behind each lie and examines why the myths keep going

what your family and co-workers demand

they're about to get their big break

The Secret Life of Bees Biology briefer but just as impactfulSet in South Carolina in 1964, 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 Carolinaa town that holds the secret to her mother's past. Taken in by an eccentric trio of Black