Movie Morning – Akeelah and the Bee

Join the library to celebrate National Word Nerd Day with a fun Movie Morning! We’ll be screening Akeelah and the Bee! Free and open to all ages! Snacks!

Film description: Akeelah Anderson, a young girl attending a tough school in Los Angeles, sees the finals of the National Spelling Bee. She decides to enter the competition, despite her classmates derision and the antipathy of her mother Tanya. Thanks to the efforts of her teacher Dr Joshua Larabee, she reaches the final. When she meets her fellow competitors, she realises that coming first isn’t everything in life