Sometimes bees get too big to be up in the bracnhes. Sometimes they fall and break their bones. This week both happened, and Foreman said, 'Tomorrow we'll find two new bees.'
 
In a world where real bees are extinct, the quickest, bravest kids climb the fruit trees and pollinate the flowers by hand. All Peony really wants is to be a bee -- dancing along the high branches and helping her gramps and sister scratch out a living. Life on the farm is a scrabble, but there is enough to eat and a place to sleep, and there is love. Then Peony's mother arrives to take her away from everything shee has ever known. Will Peony's grit and quick thinking be enough to keep her safe?
 
How to Bee is a beautiful and fierce novel. The voice of Peony will stay with you long after you read the last page.