Keeper of the Bees by Meg Kassel Genre: YA Paranormal Release Date: September 4th 2018 Entangled Teen Summary: “ Beauty and the beast like you’ve never imagined! ” — New York Times bestselling author Pintip Dunn KEEPER OF THE BEES is a tale of two teens who are both beautiful and beastly, and whose pasts are entangled in surprising and heartbreaking ways. Dresden is cursed. His chest houses a hive of bees that he can’t stop from stinging people with psychosis-inducing venom. His face is a shifting montage of all the people who have died because of those stings. And he has been this way for centuries—since he was eighteen and magic flowed through his homeland, corrupting its people. He follows harbingers of death, so at least his curse only affects those about to die anyway. But when he arrives in a Midwest town marked for death, he encounters Essie, a seventeen-year-old girl who suffers from debilitating delusions and hallucinations. His bees want to sting her on sight. But Essie does...
You may have noticed me on Twitter speaking about TEDx. Well, it happened, and it went really well. TEDx is an offshoot of the TED talks, where a collection of speakers come and do short talks on a subject of their choosing. The x marks the event as independently organised. One of my friends, Tanya, decided we should do a TEDx event. She looked into getting a license, she got one, and plans started being made. We had a mix of students and external speakers and performers, all covering a range of topics. NON PRATT, author of TROUBLE and REMIX, talked about how we condition generations into genders. SARAH SKY, author of the JESSICA COLE series, gave us a quick tour though female spies, past and present. The A LEVEL DRAMA group did part of their performance of Monsters, revolving around the killing of Jamie Bulger SHONA DIXON analysed the response to Ebola. DR GEORGINA NEALL talked about, among other things, how she balances studying, working, and raising four children. ...
