Beginners Welcome

The Stars of Whistling Ridge

Sure Signs of Crazy

Red, White, and Whole

Counting Thyme

I Am Jazz

The Day of the Pelican

Faith, Hope, and Ivy June

A debut middle grade about a girl coming to terms with her mother’s mental illness.

When twelve-year-old Della Kelly finds her mother furiously digging black seeds from a watermelon in the middle of the night and talking to people who aren't there, Della worries that it’s happening again—that the sickness that put her mama in the hospital four years ago is back. That her mama is going to be hospitalized for months like she was last time.

With her daddy struggling to save the farm and her mama in denial about what’s happening, it’s up to Della to heal her mama for good. And she knows just how she’ll do it: with a jar of the Bee Lady’s magic honey, which has mended the wounds and woes of Maryville, North Carolina, for generations.

But when the Bee Lady says that the solution might have less to do with fixing Mama’s brain and more to do with healing her own heart, Della must learn that love means accepting her mama just as she is.

Discover Your Child's Next Read

Beginners Welcome

Cindy Baldwin, 2020

The Stars of Whistling Ridge

Cindy Baldwin, 2021

Sure Signs of Crazy

Karen Harrington, 2013

Red, White, and Whole

Rajani Larocca, 2021

Counting Thyme

Melanie Conklin, 2016

I Am Jazz

Shelagh Mcnicholas, Jessica Herthel, Jazz Jennings, 2014

The Day of the Pelican

Katherine Paterson, 2009

Faith, Hope, and Ivy June

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, 2009