![]() ![]() ![]() 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.īut 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. 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. Our special guest this week is Cindy Baldwin debut author of the acclaimed Where the Watermelons Grow. Biting into one of those ruby-red slices is like tasting July, feeling that cold juice hitting your tongue like an explosion. He grows other things, too, like wheat and peanuts in his big fields and squash and berries in his small ones, but the watermelons are my favorite. That her mama is going to be hospitalized for months like she was last time. My daddy grows the sweetest watermelons in all of North Carolina. 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. Fans of The Thing About Jellyfish and A Snicker of Magic will be swept away by Cindy Baldwin’s debut middle grade about a girl coming to terms with her mother’s mental illness. ![]()
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