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//The Secret Life of Bees// by Ann Monk Kidd Comprehension Questions Melissa Lily is from South California. She lives with her father T-Ray and has a baby sitter, Rosaleen. Her mother Deborah Owens, died in December3, 1954.Lily has spent much of her life craving for her mother who died among strange accident when she was four. She is strong girl who is trying to know more about her dead mother. Every times she would bring up the subject, T-ray would not tell her much. He was the meanest person in the world. He never spent time with her. Only Rosaleen would understand her. At age of fourteen, she ran away with her nanny decided to know all of her mom’s past. By Hansel Cruz. The book of The Life of Bees is settled in South Carolina in 1964, this is the tale of Lily Owens a 14 year-old girl who is haunted by the memory of her late mother. To escape her lonely life and troubled relationship with her father, Lily flees with Rosaleen, and her only friend to a South Carolina town that holds the secret to her mother's past. Taken in by the intelligent and independent Boatwright sisters, Lily finds solace in their mesmerizing world of beekeeping.

AUTHOR ESTEFANIA B ROSARIO  __Sue Monk Kidd __ 

Sue Monk Kidd was born on August 12, 1948, and raised in the small town of Sylvester in southwestern Georgia. Her love of stories and writing developed early, inspired by her father's storytelling and the encouragement of English teachers. During adolescence, she wrote her first stories and kept a journal, but she set aside writing to study nursing at Texas Christian University.

She graduated in 1970 and worked for most of the next decade as a registered nurse and as a college instructor. During this time she married Sanford Kidd, a theology student, and had two children, Bob and Ann.

Kidd rediscovered her interest in writing while living in Anderson, South Carolina, in the 1980s. She took writing courses at the local college where her husband was teaching. A personal essay that she wrote for Her hope for a career in writing was not without an early detour. In what Sue has called an "inexplicable twist that is partly due to a failure of courage and partly due to the cultural climate of the South in 1966," she chose a more traditional path when it came time to go to college. She majored in nursing and graduated in 1970 from Texas Christian University with a B.S. degree, then worked throughout her twenties as a registered nurse class. During this time, she marriedShortly before Sue turned thirty, the pull to writing returned. Living in South Carolina, where her husband Sandy was teaching at a small liberal arts college, she enrolled in writing classes with the intention of writing fiction, but was soon diverted to non-fiction. She began a career as a freelancer, writing personal experience articles, most of them inspirational and art of living pieces. Sue published several hundred articles, primarily in Guideposts Magazine, but also in numerous other publications, newspapers and journals.

SanfHer first book, //God's Joyful Surprise//, published by Harper SanFrancisco in 1988, describes the beginning of her spiritual searching. Her second book, //When the Heart Waits// was published by Harper SanFrancisco in 1990, and revealed a deepening of Sue's voice. Rooted in contemplative spirituality, the memoir recounts a vivid spiritual transformation at mid life. While in her early forties, Sue turned her explorations and study to feminist theology. The result was //The Dance of the Dissident Daughter//, published in 1996 by Harper SanFrancisco. his bold and highly successfully memoir had a groundbreaking effect within religious circles.ord (Sandy) Kidd and they had two children, Bob aWhen Sue's desire to write fiction returned, she felt, by her own account, intimidated, but took the leap, enrolling in a graduate writing course at Emory University, and studying at Sewanee, Bread Loaf and other writers' conferences. She began by writing and publishing short stories in small When her first novel, //The Secret Life of Bees// was published by Viking in 2002, it became a genuine literary phenomenon. A story of coming-of-age, race-relations, the search for love and home, the novel tells the story of fourteen year old Lily, who runs away with her black housekeeper in 1964 in South Carolina and the sanctuary they both find in the home of three beekeeping sisters, who revere a Black Madonna.the New York Times bestseller list and been published in 35 countries. It was awarded the 2004 Book Sense Paperback book of the Year, nominated for the Orange Prize in England, and chosen as Good Morning America's Read This! Book Club pick. Taught widely now in college and high school classrooms, //The Secret Life of Bees// is fast becoming a modern classic. It has been produced on stage in New York by The American Place Theater and been adapted into a movie by Fox Searchlight. ards.nd Ann. Sue's second novel, //The Mermaid Chair//, has sold more than 1.7 million copies since its publication in the Spring of 2005. Set on a South Carolina barrier island, it tells the story of 42 year old Jessie Sullivan, a married woman who falls in love with a Benedictine monk, and explores themes of mid life marriage and self-awakening. //The Mermaid Chair// reached the #1 spot on the New York Times bestseller list and remained on the hardcover and paperback list for nine months. Winner of the 2005 Quill Award for General Fiction, the novel has been translated into 23 languIn 2006, //Firstlight//, a collection of Sue's early writings was released in hardcover by Guideposts Books and in paperback by Penguin in 2007. This compilation of inspirational stories, spiritual essays, and meditations has been translated into several languages and has over 200,000 copies in print. ages and was produced as a television movie by Lifetime. Sue's new book, //Traveling with Pomegranates//, co-authored with her daughter Ann, is a mother daughter travel memoir due out in 2009. AWARDS AND RECOGNITION 
 * Nominated for the 2006 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award- //The Mermaid Chair//
 * 2006 Distinguished Alumna of the Year, presented by Texas Christian University
 * 2006 South Carolina "The Order of the Palmetto" Award - State's highest civilian honor
 * 2005 Winner of the Quill Award in General Fiction - //The Mermaid Chair//
 * 2005 Southeastern Library Association Fiction Award winner - //The Secret Life of Bees//
 * 2004 Book Sense Book of the Year, paperback- //The Secret Life of Bees//
 * Literature To Life Award presented by The American Place Theatre- 2004
 * Nominated for the 2004 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award- //The Secret Life of Bees//.
 * Winner of the 2003 SEBA Book of the Year for //The Secret Life of Bees//
 * Finalist for the 2003 Book Sense Book of the Year Award, hardcover- //The Secret Life of Bees//
 * Finalist for the 2003 Boeke Prize in South Africa- //The Secret Life of Bees//
 * <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif';">Nominated for the 2002 Orange Prize in England- //The Secret Life of Bees//
 * <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif';">Winner of the 1996 Poets & Writers Exchange Program in Fiction
 * <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif';">Citation in Best American Short Stories 1996, //100 Distinguished Stories// for //In the Graveyard of Afterbirth//.
 * <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif';">1994 South Carolina Fellowship in Literature by the South Carolina Arts Commission
 * <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif';">Citation in Best American Short Stories 1994, //100 Distinguished Stories//- //The Secret Life of Bees.//
 * <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif';">1993 Katherine Anne Porter Second Prize in Fiction by the Nimrod/Hardman Awards
 * <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif';">1994 & 1996 South Carolina Academy of Authors Fellowships in Fiction by the S.C. Academy of Authors

Perla Galindo Lily was 4 when her mother was killed. She barely remember what had happened, but at least what she got in mind was terrible. At her short age, she was living in a very different world comparing with others, and living with her father, things were quite difficult. Bees were her companionship during this process, during the process of her new life. Her mother was the central point of her life.She remembered her as her most loved treasure that she had.She always thought that her life would have turned different if her mother would still alive. She use to spend her afternoons in the peach stand of his father(T.Ray) selling his peaches, but also reading, which was unacceptable for him.Rosaleen was the only support that lily could have,she’d been working for T.Ray since Lily’s mother died. So one of those days Lily decided to take a long path with Rosaleen looking for a new life and answers of her mother death.

Erika Garcia 2-25-09 One of the characters in this book was the father of the girl Lyli on the book. She Wrote of this book because This book talked in first person.She never mention the name of her father, and she just said how she called him T.Ray. T.Ray was a strong man,strongefeeling, and sometimes he acted insensitive with his dauther.For example he doesn’t spend much time with his daugther, and he figth much of the time with his daugther for everything.This one of the reason why his dauther called him T.Ray ,and she never called him “Daddy” because she things that he never fit him in this world. His wife die and the accident, and this was hurt for him. After his wife has the accident he find Rosaleen to take care of his daugther. He never celebrate her birthday and he never expain to his daugther the reson why not.He mencinated a litter big to his daugther what cain of the accident her mother has because she remember some part of the accidents. She remenber that her mother was take up the clothes from the closet and her mother was fighting with his father. She hear shot, but she doesn’t understand what happened. She told him all of this because he was figth with her. nHe said to his daugther that he was fight with her mother but she took the gum and she shut to her mother. He said to her that her mother wanted to left from the house and his wife was going to leave the house and leave her with him. How to read the book March 2 Chapter 1-2 Summary of the chapter 9 Chapter 3-6 16 chapter 7-10 23 Chapter 11-14