Summer We Saved the Bees, The
After twelve-year-old Wolf completes a school passion project on the perilous situation facing bees in the world, his mother becomes obsessed with saving the bees and packs the blended family into a van painted to look like a bee and they set off across Canada to raise awareness of the bee problem. Wolf’s older siblings quickly become fed up and repeatedly make plans to flee while Wolf tries to deal with his younger siblings. This Canadian novel for grades 4-7 deals with topics of blended families, bees and bee die-off, pesticides, and the environment, and is suitable as a class read-aloud, literature circle, or to support a class unit on bees.
Collections:
Novel
Subject:
English Language Arts
Grades:
- 4-7
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