The bee hive

Eleven-year-old Daniel Jeremiah Chambers has parents Philip and Susan who love work and shopping and who just don't listen.

Daniel is an only child ...no, he's lying ...he has a sister, Alice, who has a dolly fixation; Dan is sure she is an alien.

So, Dan has a few problems, none insurmountable, until his friend, Benji, introduces him to the find of the century - a derelict bee hive which could become a den.

Of course, such a simple thing is never so simple and when Dan finds a map well, all kinds of things just go horribly wrong.

For example - Alice noses her nosey way in and two strange men suddenly turn up wanting what's theirs - and then there's the bank, too.

The Beehive by Simon Adepetun is a tight little sharp-witted bumble through a short period in Dan's young life. 'What's a bumble?' - 'Shut up, Alice!'