Where the Watermelons Grow by Cindy Baldwin

Grades 4 – 6

Twelve-year-old Della Kelly knows everyone in her hometown of Mayville, North Carolina, including the woman everyone knows as “The Bee Lady.” When Della’s mother’s illness spins out of control again, she thinks she knows just the cure: some of The Bee Lady’s magic honey, which has healed people for generations. What Della learns from the Bee Lady, though, is something she didn’t see coming: the truth that maybe the honey can’t fix her mother’s brain and she should concentrate on loving her mother just the way she is.

Thanks to School Library Journal for a review copy of this book.