STEPHEN CHICOINE

Author/Speaker
Historian/Photographer

March 2010 - I have secured representation from Janklow & Nesbit Associates, a top literary agency in New York, for my young adult novel BUZZ.

Anything can and will happen when a street-smart kid from Chicago finds himself in the mesquite brush country of South Texas for the summer. BUZZ is a coming-of-age novel in which a young man's search for personal identity collides with an examination of personal responsibility for the environment and systemic racism.

Buzz, an eccentric beekeeper with a quirky sense of language and country-boy humor, takes Matt on for the summer and teaches him about the Texas way of life, the flora and fauna of the brush country, the dire situation of the bees and much more. Matt must endure the bullying of the local ranchers' sons and the hostility of the older brothers of the pretty Latina, who steals his heart, in a summer that changes him forever.