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Akeelah and the Bee

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Akeelah Anderson is a very bright girl, she’s hardly a star student and seems afraid of acting like a bookworm around her friends and classmates

Akeelah and the Bee

However, Akeelah’s teacher sees genuine potential in her student and encourages her to enter the school’s spelling bee, convinced Akeelah has the brains and the talent to win.

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