Where the Watermelons Grow
Where the Watermelons Grow
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Where the Watermelons Grow

Written by Cindy Baldwin
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8 - 12
Reading age
256
Page count
202
Words per page
1020L
Lexile measure
Jul 3, 2018
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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. 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.

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    Book Details

    ISBN
    9780062665867
    Publication Date
    July 3, 2018
    Publisher
    HarperCollins
    Page Count
    256
    Words Per Page
    202
    Audience
    Middle Grade
    Reading Age
    8 - 12 years
    Lib. of Congress (LCCN)
    2017034537
    Lexile® Level
    1020L
    Est. Fountas & Pinnell Level
    ~Y
    ATOS® Book Level
    5.4
    Accelerated Reader® Points
    8
    Accelerated Reader Quiz
    197589
    Accelerated Reader Interest Level
    MG

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