ANSWER TIME!!

Across:

2. Peanuts

9. Two

12. Sue Monk Kidd

13. Whale

14. Mother

16. Journal

17. Peaches

18. Owens

20. Chains

Down:

1. Summer

3. Snout

4. Lawyer

5. Pink

6. South Carolina

7. Rosaleen

8. Madonna

10. Four

11. Civil Rights Act

15. Blue

19. Wailing Wall

CROSSWORD TIME!!

Rosaleen's Secret Diary

(This is an entry from Rosaleen after May committed suicide, from the novel A Secret Life of Bees)

   May passed a week ago, we just finished the vigil and I am certain she has traveled the path to heaven easily.  I have done nothing but cry and cook since her death, she was my only friend in this new covert world Lilly and I have entered.  Everyone is in mourning; June sits in her room day after day and plays her cello and August is constantly at May's wailing wall or down by the river.  Maybe she finds some comfort in reading all of the world's pains which have finally caused May's death.  Lilly occasionally sleeps with for comfort, but I can tell something other then this tragedy is eating away at her; it must be the lies we have spun in order to stay here.  We must come clean or their burden could be the death of us, like the world's pains were to May.

Zach's Summer Diary

(This diary entry comes from Zach's feelings for Lilly and life on the bee farm; from the novel A Secret Life of Bees)

It's July now and I have seen Lilly almost everyday.  On the day we found the purple honey within the far hives, we almost kissed.  That moment continues to take my breath away.  My heart was racing a-mile-a-minute, I am certain she could hear it pounding in my chest.  I gave her a journal to start her writing career off early; on that day I expressed my feelings for her, and I could tell she felt the same deep yearning for me also.  I wish I wasn't black, or she wasn't white.  I hope she stays here indefinitely, times will change and blacks and whites will be able to publicly engage in relationships. We will just have to wait, I know I will wait for her.