The year is 2036. Honeybees are nearly extinct. The world's crops are disappearing and a young boy's life hangs in the balance. When Melissa Bui's origami opens a time portal to Ancient Crete and connects her to a young athlete named Amethea, she has a chance to save both bees and boy. But she may risk blinking out of existence like the quarks her scientist father studies. Set in the Texas Hill Country and a small island off the coast of Crete, The Bee Maker is a science fiction novel written especially for tweens (ages 10-14), but is a page-turner of a story for all ages.