How to Bee

MacDibble, Bren

Allen& Unwin

From the author of the multi-award-winning and bestselling How to Bee comes an intense and thrilling new adventure.

The Dog Runner

Children's Books

Action & Adventure

A & U Children

Across the Risen Sea

A&U New Zealand

Peony lives with her sister, Magnolia, and her grandfather on a fruit farm outside the city. All Peony really wants is to be a bee. Even though she is only nine -- and bees must be ten -- Peony already knows all there is to know about being a bee and she is determined to achieve her dream. Life on the farm is a scrabble, but there is enough to eat and a place to sleep, and there is love. Then Peony's mother arrives to take her away from everything she has ever known. Peony is taken to the city to work for a wealthy family. Will Peony's grit and quick thinking be enough to keep her safe? How to Bee is a beautiful and fierce novel for younger readers, and the voice of Peony will stay with you long after you read the last page.

GROUNDWOOD BOOKS *

Review\n[A] middle grade tale of courage, with a unique storyline that magnifies a realistic threat to one of nature's most helpful insects. ― School Library Journal\n[MacDibble] has created a recognizable, unforgettable voice in Peony… a child-friendly version of Anthony Burgess’s Alex from A Clockwork Orange. ― Booklist\nHow to Bee is a chilling look at a broken future and a beautiful story of how those from vastly different backgrounds can inspire change in one another. ― Shelf Awareness\nA story about family, loyalty, kindness and bravery, set against an all-too-possible future where climate change has forever changed the way we live. 
In a world where real bees are extinct, the quickest, bravest kids climb the fruit trees and pollinate the flowers by hand. Peony lives with her sister, Magnolia, and her grandfather on a fruit farm outside the city. All Peony really wants is to be a bee. Even though she is only nine ― and bees must be ten ― Peony already knows all there is to know about being a bee and she is determined to achieve her dream. 
Life on the farm is a scrabble, but there is enough to eat and a place to sleep, and there is love. Then Peony’s mother arrives to take her away from everything she has ever known. Peony is taken to the city to work for a wealthy family. Will Peony’s grit and quick thinking be enough to keep her safe? 
How to Bee is a beautiful and fierce novel for younger readers, and the voice of Peony will stay with you long after you read the last page. 
Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: 
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.6 
Describe how a narrator's or speaker's point of view influences how events are described.

Gigglers Blue Take Me to Your Leader

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Blake Education

'That ugly red fungus killed all the wheat for flour, killed all the oat, and sugar cane for sugar and golden syrup, along with all the grass for cows and butter. Killed just about every ingredient that me and Dad used to use when we made Anzac bickies. I don't think I'll ever see another Anzac bickie in my whole life.' Ella and her brother Emery are alone in a city that's starving to death. If they are going to survive, they must get away, upcountry, to find Emery's mum. But how can two kids travel such big distances across a dry, barren and dangerous landscape? Well, when you've got a few big doggos, the answer is you go mushing. When Emery is injured, Elle finds herself suddenly responsible for safely navigating the wheeled dog-sled through rough terrain, and even rougher encounters with desperate people. As with 'How to Bee', Bren MacDibble has set 'The Dog Runner' in an all-too-possible dystopian future Australia where climate change has taken hold. Her compelling adventure underlines the depth of ancient knowledge and the human ingenuity which will ultimately give tomorrow's generations hope of averting ultimate global disaster.

Literature & Fiction

Old Barn Books

Science & Math

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