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Can I read The Bee Tree on EtoBox?
The Bee Tree by Stephen Buchmann; Diana Cohn; Paul Mirocha is a children's book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Bee Tree about?
The Bee Tree is a magical story about giant bees, about trees that are higher than your eye can see in a forest that is more dark than light, and about a young boy named Nizam who soon will become a man. Nizam lives in a village near the rainforest preserve surrounding PeduLake, just below the Thai border in Peninsular Malaysia. His grandfather Pak-Teh is the leader of the honey hunting clan. It is Pak-Teh who has the high honor of climbing the tall Tualang tree in the annual hunt to gather honey from the nests of giant honey bees. But Pak-Teh is getting older and is now ready to prepare someone to take his place. He believes that Nizam is the one. Even though Nizam has climbed the mighty Tualangthe bee treein the daylight, he has never done it at night. Will he be brave enough? On the first moonless night of the honey hunt, Nizam and Pak-Teh and the other honey hunters enter the dark rainforest. Pak-Teh starts the hunt with a prayer and a traditional story. Then he begins to climb. Nizam follows. Can he climb that high and not be afraid? Will the angry bees sting him? At the top, Nizam and Pak-Teh use the honey hunters secret to keep from being stung, while their clansmen below so
Who reads The Bee Tree?
It is typically read by young readers, and the parents and educators who guide them.
Common subject areas: juvenile, young adult.
- Author
- Stephen Buchmann; Diana Cohn; Paul Mirocha
- Publisher
- El Paso, Tex.: Cinco Puntos Press
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781935955146
- Category
- children's
- Subjects
- Children'S, Nature, Fiction
- Rating
- 4.05 / 5 (35 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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