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Myla Goldberg
"Bee Season"

Remember the sweaty-palmed, knee-knocking angst of your first elementary school spelling bee? In Myla Goldberg's debut novel "Bee Season," a young, otherwise unremarkable, girl learns she has an uncanny talent for spelling. Goldberg's wonderfully descriptive prose introduces us to this mysterious and nefarious world of spelling bees.

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"Eliza Naumann is an 11-year-old girl in the slow class at school who's a disappointment to her gifted parents -- her father, Saul, a Judaic scholar and erstwhile mystic, and her mother, Miriam, a lawyer with a voracious intellect and a compulsion toward order. While Eliza was never particularly good at anything before, she discovers that she's good at spelling bees. When she wins a regional contest, her father begins to take notice of her -- and she soon begins to displace her smarter, more talented brother Aaron in his affections." -Salon.com

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From "Bee Season" � 2000, Myla Goldberg. Used by permission of Random House, Inc. No reproduction of this material is authorized without the express written consent of the Licensor.

Bee Season

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