A gem of a story about a young girl going through a traumatic experience and a difficult parental relationship and finding love and sweetness through bees and a fantastic step grandfather. I occasionally found myself distracted by things like …. A five year old was analyzing all this behavior so deeply and remembers it so well. Then I realized memory is like that, we project later thoughts and reactions into our past.All in all… a great reader for bee lovers and survivors of traumatic hildhoofs as well as the general populace ( )

Meredith is only five when her parents split and she, her mother and brother move in with her grandmother and step-grandfather. Her grandpa has a bus where he makes honey. She learns a lot of lessons of life from what he tells her about bees. This autobiography was more like a novel and kept me reading too late in the night. I only wish she credited God and not "Mother Nature" with the amazing nature of bees. ( )

Beautifully written and very informative about honeybees. I loved it. ( )

Listened to the audio book. The narrator did a great job with all the different voices. A story of family, finding yourself and overcoming odds. Lots of memoirs have similar themes, this one leaves you feeling good and not depressed which is a nice change. ( )

Had a tough time rating this book. I had wanted to read it (listen to it) for a long time and I knew it was highly rated so I had high expectations. I did enjoy the relationship between Meredith and her grandfather and the life lessons he taught her with the help of his bees. I really liked the ending and how she tied it all up.
What I did not like was the overly specific and descriptive scenes all throughout the book. It made it feel like a novel rather than a memoir, as it was hard to believe any person could remember all those specific details from their life. (A minor note - I also did not like the narrator of the audio version).
Like I said, I really liked the ending and that left me with a good feeling and 3.5 rating rather than a 3 ( )