The Bees (the Bees #1) - by Brittney Cooper (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

The BSC meets Black girlhood in a series about friendship, growing up, and learning to be true to yourself from New York Times bestselling author Brittney Cooper.

Come meet the Bees!

BROOKLYN has just moved to her late mother's hometown to be closer to family. She misses her home of New York desperately, and she doesn't make it a secret that no small town in Georgia can compare.

BEAU is working at her family's cupcake shop and trying to survive middle school after being ditched by her lifelong best friend, who just happens to be . . .

BAM. Bam has learned what it takes to be one of the most popular girls in school, and she's not going to let some hurt feelings get in the way of her spot.

Middle school is complicated enough. Can three very different girls find a way to be friends, or are they destined to get stung?

Review Quotes

Praise for Stand Up!:

* "Vibrantly illustrated and featuring a variety of justice-seekers, this book belongs in every library and classroom." -- School Library Journal, starred review

"The engaging text is enhanced by Johnson's bright, fluid illustrations... A work of advocacy and encouragement for the youngest readers." -- Kirkus Reviews

Praise for Brittney Cooper:

"Brittney Cooper is a national treasure. Eloquent Rage is as exhilarating as it is vulnerable, a crucial book that tackles friendship and feminism, Hillary Clinton and Sandra Bland, violence and family, sex and faith and race and gender, all with vibrant grace and honesty. Cooper is a generous writer, affording even those she rages against good humored compassion, but never letting any of us fully off the hook. This book is just so good." -- Rebecca Traister, New York Times bestselling author

"[Eloquent Rage] is distinct both for its telling as the author's own journey and for its -- yes -- eloquent personal voice, which, between her erudition and her command of vernacular, is funny, wrenching, pithy, and pointed." -- Rebecca Solnit, The New Republic

"A dissertation on black women's pain and possibility; an autobiography of a black woman's complicated dance with feminism, overcoming otherness as a big black girl in a skinny-white-girl world, her mother's triumph over violence, and her own journey from disappointment to black joy." -- Joy Reid, Cosmopolitan

About the Author

Brittney Cooper is the New York Times bestselling author of several books, including her debut picture book Stand Up! 10 Mighty Women Who Made a Change, and the novels Feminist AF: A Guide to Crushing Girlhood and Eloquent Rage: A Black Woman Discovers Her Superpowers. A professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers University, she cofounded the Crunk Feminist Collective, and her cultural commentary has been featured on MSNBC's All In with Chris Hayes, Melissa Harris-Perry, The New York Times, New York Magazine, Marie Claire, The Cut, The Washington Post, NPR, PBS, Al Jazeera's Third Rail, Ebony.com, Essence.com, TheRoot.com, and TED.com, and has been named four times to The Root 100.