Description Twelve-year-old Flor faces a bittersweet summer with a pageant, a frenemy, and a hive full of honey.
Fetch, her.
Nest, her debut, was called "stunning" in a starred review from School Library Journal.
She worked as a textile designer for Hable Construction in New York City and is now based in San Francisco, where she lives with her husband and their two small children.
Jorey Hurley studied art history at Princeton, received her law degree at Stanford, and studied design at FIT.
She is the author of Karma Khullar\'s Mustache and Honeybees and Frenemies.
With the help of her mother-in-law, she can now make a mean curry and a super-speedy saag.
She\'s spent twelve years raising her family in her husband\'s home country of Singapore, where she spends her days taking her four kids to school, Punjabi lessons, and music.
After studying to become a teacher for children with special needs, she spent several years exploring the world from China to England, teaching her students everything from English to how to flip their eyelids inside out.
About the Author Kristi Wientge is originally from Ohio where she grew up writing stories about animals and, her favorite, a jet-setting mouse.
She has a lot of work to do.
And with how much her mom and dad have been fighting lately, is it possible that her dad may not join them? Flor can\'t let that happen.
Then there\'s the possibility that Flor and her family are leaving to move in with her mom\'s family in New Jersey.
And she can\'t say no.
This means Flor has to spend the summer practicing her talent (recorder) and volunteering (helping a recluse bee-keeper) with Candice, her former friend who\'s still bitter about losing the pageant crown to Flor when they were in second grade.
It becomes even worse when she\'s asked to compete in the local honey pageant.
It\'s the summer before eighth grade and Flor is stuck at home and working at her family\'s mattress store, while her best friend goes off to band camp (probably to make new friends).
Description Twelve-year-old Flor faces a bittersweet summer with a pageant, a frenemy, and a hive full of honey
