num_pages: 360
description: Things are only impossible if you stop to think about them. . . .While her friends are spending their summers having pool parties and sleepovers twelve-year-old Carolina  Carol  is spending hers in the middle of the New Mexico desert helping her parents move the grandfather shes never met into a home for people with dementia. At first Carol avoids prickly Grandpa Serge. But as the summer wears on and the heat bears down Carol finds herself drawn to him fascinated by the crazy stories he tells her about a healing tree a green-glass lake and the bees that will bring back the rain and end a hundred years of drought. As the thin line between magic and reality starts to blur Carol must decide for herself what is possible  and what it means to be true to her roots. Readers who dream that theres something more out there will be enchanted by this captivating novel of family renewal and discovering the wonder of the world.
language: None
title: Hour of the Bees
publisher: Candlewick Press