Hive (The Vault #1)

Author: A. J. Betts

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  • : 20.00 NZD
  • : 9781760556433
  • : Pan Macmillan Australia Pty, Limited
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  • : March 2018
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  • : A. J. Betts
  • : The Vault
  • : Paperback
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  • : English
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  • : 272
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Local Description

When bee-keeper Hayley discovers a salty tasting drip on the ceiling of her community's empty service house, which no one is supposed to enter, she is puzzled. The same day an elder dies when one of the bees that Hayley is responsible for stings him and the authorities want to hush it up. Hayley has never questioned her strict community's rules before, thinking there were no secrets and that everyone is living in peaceful harmony. But now that cracks are appearing, she is determined to find some answers. A dystopian novel for age 13+, Hive has been likened to Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. There are some similarities although Hive is not as grim! Betts builds a seemingly idyllic new world in the first of her two-book series. But disturbing undertones emerge as Hayley  tries to get to the truth and her life is in danger. Betts is the author of the award-winning Zac & Mia,  which has been made into a TV series, released in the US in 2017. - Ruth

Description

All I can tell you is what I remember, in the words that I have. Hayley tends to her bees and follows the rules in the only world she has ever known. Until she witnesses the impossible: a drip from the ceiling. A drip? It doesn't make sense. Yet she hears it, catches it. Tastes it. Curiosity is a hook. What starts as a drip leads to a lie, a death, a boy, a beast, and too many awful questions. Hive is the first in a gripping two-book series by award-winning and international bestselling author A. J. Betts. Special Signed Copies! Want this book signed by A.J. Betts? Let us know in the checkout notes! 

Promotion info

A compelling and immersive alternate-world story from the award-winning and bestselling author of Zac & Mia.

Awards

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ABIA BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR OLDER CHILDREN 2019 LONGLISTED FOR THE GOLD INKY AWARD 2019 SHORTLISTED FOR THE INDIE BOOK AWARD FOR YOUNG ADULT FICTION 2019

Author description

A. J. Betts is an Australian author, speaker, teacher and cyclist, and has a PhD on the topic of wonder, in life and in reading. She has written four novels for young adults. Her third novel, Zac & Mia, won the 2012 Text Prize, the 2014 SCBWI Crystal Kite Award, and the 2014 Ethel Turner prize for young adults at the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, was shortlisted for the 2014 Queensland Literary Award, and is available in 14 countries. It was adapted for American television by AwesomenessTV, and will soon be available globally. Her fourth novel, Hive, was shortlisted for the 2019 Indie Book Awards and 2019 ABIA Book of the Year for Older Children, and is a notable book in the Children's Book Council of Australia awards. A. J. is originally from Queensland but has lived in Fremantle since 2004.