Eleven-year-old Eva's arrest for shoplifting prompts her mother to move them out of Manhattan to a quiet town in upstate New York where Eva meets a reclusive beekeeper who helps mother and daughter face their past and move forward into the future.
Fifteen-year-old Cat Kincaid, having failed to fit into a series of foster homes and finding herself stuck on a farm with an elderly female beekeeper, secretly longs for a place to be herself, not somebody she has invented.
Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny decide to investigate when they travel with their grandfather to buy honey at the Sherman's honey farm only to discover that the bees, for some reason, have quit making honey.
Three years after the death of her mother, eleven-year-old Maddie finds a note attached to a popped balloon, leading to a correspondence with a mysterious fourteen-year-old girl who helps Maddie understand that life must go on.
An introduction to the importance of honey throughout history and around the world, including discussions of its composition and how it is produced, gathered, sold, and used. Includes a number of recipes for cosmetics and food dishes.
In the Ethiopian mountain village of Lalibela, famous for its churches and honey, a young girl determines to find a way to be a beekeeper despite being told that is something only men can do.
Explores the strange and wonderful things humans have believed about bees and their society throughout history, the impact honeybees have had on food and human ritual, and the social and natural history of bees.
