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Hi all...Got Little Bee on the last day of school, on the way home and have waited to hear and make this page to start. I will start later today...Friday, June 4th! Well, now is it June 23rd and I finished Little Bee while camping for the last 5 days in Cuchara...a beautiful place above La Veta between Walsenburg and Trinidad in the Calabra Range of mountains. It was soooo beautiful and every morning with my coffee and in the evening before dark I got to read.

What an amazing book. Strategies I found myself using were: 1. Read all of the information on the back of the book and in the first few pages of reviews. 2. Didn't realize until the end that there were printed, discussion questions. That would have been great to refer to during reading but I did NOT use those. 3. I worked in West Africa in the Peace Corps in 1975 so I had a lot of connections with what I was reading (NOT the war part) 4. Really loved how the author wrote in the "vernacular" of the girls from Jamaica and Nigeria. Tried reading it out loud to see how it sounded. 5. Needed my dictionary for a few new vocabulary words that I could not figure out from the context. 6. Re-read a lot...loved the beautiful language the author used.