The honey thief

Description:

After Eva Baruch, 11, of New York is caught shoplifting for the umpteenth time, her widowed mother moves to the country. Eva befriends a 40-year-old beekeeper and he opens her eyes to the world of bees with positive effect on her kleptomania.

subjects: Bee culture,  Beekeepers,  Fiction,  Girls,  Mothers and daughters,  Problem children,  Shoplifting,  Reconciliation,  Kleptomania,  Widows,  Mothers and daughters, fiction,  New york (state), fiction,  Fiction, general,  Large type books,  New York Times reviewed,  Domestic fiction

Places: Ithaca (N.Y.)