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Gr 3 Up—In this bizarre, yet strikingly beautiful book in translation, Mello presents the story of a Brazilian child laborer through the eyes of a hornet. In a meandering conversational style, the hornet addresses readers in the second person. She abruptly switches back and forth between the story of a young boy working in the coal mines and her own preoccupations with feeding her egg. The boy escapes the grasp of an inspector, and accidentally loses a mysterious key given to him urgently by his friend who was not so lucky. In his frustration, the boy des...Log In or Sign Up to Read More