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Akeelah And The Bee
Akeelah And The Bee is about 11-year-old African-American Akeelah Anderson from a working-class family living in South Los Angeles. Akeelah is a smart girl, especially in words, because she found life at Crenshaw Middle School poor and unremarkable, so she didn't try.
But her natural gift for words has motivated the school staff, especially Principal Welch. They persuaded her to try the Scripps National Spelling Bee program. Akeelah, who has felt isolated from many in her school because she is seen as "a person of wisdom," feels that participating in such activities will make her feel even more isolated. But her joy in learning new words at least gives her a head start in the process. After easily winning the school's spelling competition, she meets and befriends Javier Mendez, a competitor on the Los Angeles County Bees team, where most of the competitors are mostly middle-class. Save whites to wealthy families.