Now that summer is in full swing, bees are a-buzzing. Last year, we put up a honeybee home by our flowers and plants and are hoping that the bees find their way soon enough. It got me thinking about a few stories that feature bees, both fiction and nonfiction.

1. Honeybee: The Busy Life of Apis Mellifera by Candace Fleming illustrated by Eric Rohmann: The perfect picture book about honeybees.
2. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd: The Black beekeeping sisters certainly make the book memorable.
3. The Honey Bus: A Memoir of Loss, Courage, and a Girl Saved by Bees by Meredith May: Using the animal world as a mirror for the human world as she moves past her dysfunctional upbringing is an emotional journey.
4. The Hive: The Story of the Honeybee and Us by Bee Wilson: All of Wilson’s books have been fabulous, so exploring everything from the use of honey in words like honeymoon and calling someone a busy bee to how it enhances food was a work of art.
5. Between You, Me, and the Honeybees by Amelia Diane Coombs: An enemies to lovers YA romance about a girl who loves her apiary.
6. A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings: A Year of Keeping Bees by Helen Jukes: An unhurried story of learning about life through learning from bees.