Kidd, Sue Monk.

The secret life of bees / Sue Monk Kidd. - New York : Penguin, 2003, c2002. - xii, 302, 15 p. ; 20 cm.

Includes "A Penguin readers guide to The secret life of bees."

A fourteen-year-old girl and her maid flee from her abusive father into the welcoming arms of the proprietors of Black Madonna Honey Co.

ISBN: 0142001740 (pbk.)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Teenage girls--Fiction.
African American women--Fiction.
Maternal deprivation--Fiction.
Race relations--Fiction.
Beekeepers--Fiction.
Sisters--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
South Carolina--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Bildungsromans.
Domestic fiction.

LC Class. No.: PS3611.I44 / S38 2003

Dewey Class. No.: 813.54