"With magical pictures and a captivating story, When The Bees Fly Home tells of a family learning to celebrate two very different sons. It's a book that will help families have lively, positive discussions about gender and differences. Alongside the story are fascinating bee facts, offering a place for the reader to alight before flying back into this poignant tale of a boy's wish for acceptance from his father." -Anne K. Fishel, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School Director, Family and Couples Therapy Program, Massachusetts General Hospital

It’s frustrating for young Jonathan, the son of a beekeeper, when he isn’t quite strong enough to help his dad with some of the work on the farm. Sometimes his father is irritable with him, and it’s worse now, because the family is struggling to make ends meet during a drought, and their bees aren’t making much honey.

When Jonathan’s mom stays up late one night to make beeswax candles to sell at the local farmer’s market, Jonathan comes downstairs to help. He puts his own skills to work modeling small wax animals and insects to decorate the candles—which prove so popular that they come home from the market with orders for lots more.

Boys often gain recognition for their strength and athletic ability, and those who do not fit into the traditional mold may feel misunderstood. When the Bees Fly Home helps us see that artistic and sensitive boys have their own special place....

Young Nancy is helping Ni Ni (Grandma) in the kitchen when a letter arrives with bad news -- her childhood home in China, with its beautiful garden pond filled with fish and ringed with chrysanthemums, is being torn down. Later that day, at the summer fair, Nancy spots a ball-tossing game, Win a Goldfish! Aiming carefully, she wins one, and then two. Now the question is how to use them to make Ni Ni feel better. Andrea Cheng's sensitive text and Michelle Chang's lovely illustrations show the enduring bonds that can exist across cultures and generations....

When Helen's grandfather, Gong Gong, comes from China to live with her family, he's shocked to find that none of his grandchildren speak Chinese. How will he communicate with them? At first he keeps to himself. Then one day he joins Helen to watch the trains. He starts counting the train cars in Chinese, and she repeats the words. Then Helen says the numbers in English. They continue to teach each other, and Helen even learns her Chinese name, which means "flower." In this luminously illustrated intergenerational story, the devotion between a young girl and her grandfather helps them overcome barriers of age and language. Grandfather Counts was selected as one of the 50 Multicultural Books Every Child Should Know by the Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)....

Kata doesn’t understand why her brother is acting so strange lately or why he hasn’t come home. Set in 1948 in Budapest, where the secret police force is questioning everyone’s loyalty and conditions seem to be worsening....

Ten-year-old Sarah Misses her best friend and neighbour, Victoria, terribly. She still waits for her in the back garden in case she comes back. The last thing Sarah needs is to be paired with the new girl at school, Tina, who has just arrived from China. Sarah is used to being confused with other Far-Eastern students at school but she doesn't want to assume that she and Tina have a lot in common. Sarah and Tina are reluctant to forge a friendship but both of them must come to terms with the changes in their lives. This an immigrant story with a twist. Told in alternating stories and in the innocent voices of two ten year old girls, "Honeysuckle House" addresses alienation, longing, prejudice, and cultural differences without ever losing touch with the true pre-occupations of childhood....