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Fusco, Kimberly Newton.
BEHOLDING BEE
New York : Knopf, 2013
IL 4-6, RL 4.5
ISBN 0375968369
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 Bee was orphaned at a very young age and now she is living with a traveling carnival and trying to keep from becoming one of the freak show exhibits.  Bee has a large birthmark on her face and she tries to keep to herself.  Pauline runs the hotdog stand and is the closest thing Bee has to a mother.  When Pauline leaves to work at another carnival, Bee takes off in search of a real home.  Together with her pets, she finds a home with two mysterious women who take her in and offer her a home.  But there is something very odd about these women.  Why is it that Bee is the only one who can see them?

SUBJECTS:     Disfigured persons -- Fiction.
                        Self-esteem -- Fiction.
                        Runaways -- Fiction.
                        Carnivals -- Fiction.
                        Orphans -- Fiction.
                        Identity -- Fiction.
                        Historical fiction.

 
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