Hour of the bees by lindsay eagar6/6/2023 ![]() ![]() How is the desert already preheated and ready for baking at eight o'clock in the morning? The warmth seeps through the walls, dry and oppressive.Ĭarolina initially finds her grandfather and his prickly temperament off-putting, but the relationship she develops with him over time makes for a tender story about patience and love. Then a stripe of orange, and a bright yellow stripe at the top. ![]() Above the purple, the sand turns rusty red, the color of caveman blood. The bottom is inky purple, from a million years ago when the universe banged itself together. ![]() When moonlight hits the ridge, it glitters like a Christmas ornament. ![]() The desert makes for a nice change of scenery in a middle grade novel, and the author succeeds in lyrically rendering the beauty of the desert as well as its stifling heat. At least Mom and Dad are dreading it, too. Instead of a summer filled with pool parties and barbecues, I'll be spending my days on a dusty sheep ranch with a grandfather whom I've never met. Twelve-year-old Carolina (Carol) has to spend the summer in the middle of the New Mexican desert with her family as they prepare her grandfather, Serge, to move into a care facility for elderly people with dementia. ![]()
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