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Bumblebee Season : A Novel.
When beekeeper Jake encounters Flaco, a scared 14-year-old boy from Mexico sent north by his mother to escape growing danger in their small village, Jake takes Flaco home to the honey farm. The duo is joined by Abigail, a graduate student leading a field study on the endangered Western Bumblebee. As the local sheriff becomes strident in his calls to detain local immigrants, Flaco faces the growing danger of being an undocumented minor. And Jake and Abigail, confronting the potential destruction of the honeybees, bumblebees, and the wild meadow in which they thrive, must come together to protect everything they hold dear.
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- ISBN: 9798217044900
- Physical Description: 400 pages ; 2 x 15 cm
- Publisher: Canada : Penguin Publishing Group, 2026.
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| Subject: | FICTION / Family Life / General FICTION / Friendship FICTION / Nature & the Environment |
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- Baker & Taylor
"From Eileen Garvin, nationally bestselling author of The Music of Bees and Crow Talk, a heartwarming new story that returns to the vibrant world of beekeeping"-- Provided by publisher. - Penguin Putnam
From Eileen Garvin, nationally bestselling author of The Music of Bees and Crow Talk, a heartwarming new story that returns to the vibrant world of beekeeping in a small Oregon town
Beekeeper Jake Stevenson should be celebrating. His fledgling honey farm has been inundated with orders. Instead, Jake is worried. He canât seem to hire anyoneâwith local teens more interested in jobs at Hood Riverâs hip waterfrontâand thereâs no way he can do it all by himself, no matter how adept heâs become at maneuvering among the beehives in his wheelchair.
Meanwhile Flaco López, a young migrant from Mexico, is lost on Mount Hood when he stumbles upon Jakeâs beehives in a high alpine meadow. As Flaco takes refuge on Jakeâs farm, they begin to form a tentative friendship. And the two soon cross paths with Abigail Plue, a scientist more interested in insects than people, whoâs on Mount Hood studying a threatened native bumblebee.
Then a local rabble rouser begins to rally support to build a commercial hunting camp that would destroy Mount Hoodâs pristine wildernessâthe home of Jakeâs honeybees and Abigailâs beloved bumblebees. And Jake, Abigail, and Flaco must come together to protect everything they hold dear. Full of warmth, big-hearted characters, and a celebration of nature in all its complexity, Bumblebee Season reminds us that human connection might just be the most powerful force there is.
