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Getting Near to Baby
Contributor(s): Couloumbis, Audrey (Author)
ISBN: 0698118928     ISBN-13: 9780698118928
Publisher: Puffin Books
OUR PRICE:   $8.09  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: April 2001
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Annotation: In this 2000 Newbery Honor Book, two girls are sent to live with their strict aunt after their baby sister dies. Aunt Patty is trying as hard as she can, but she doesn't really understand what Willa Jo and Little Sister are trying to deal with until the morning the two girls climb up to the roof of her house and refuse to come down.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Death, Grief, Bereavement
- Juvenile Fiction | Family - Siblings
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Depression & Mental Illness
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 99018191
Lexile Measure: 740
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.08" W x 7.78" (0.38 lbs) 224 pages
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 32742
Reading Level: 5.1   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 6.0
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:
A Southern charmer for fans of Newbery Honor book Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage


Audrey Couloumbis's masterful debut novel brings to mind Karen Hesse, Katherine Paterson, and Betsy Byars's The Summer of the Swans--it is a story you will never forget.


Willa Jo and Little Sister are up on the roof at Aunt Patty's house. Willa Jo went up to watch the sunrise, and Little Sister followed, like she always does. But by mid-morning, they are still up on that roof, and soon it's clear it wasn't just the sunrise that brought them there.


The trouble is, coming down would mean they'd have to explain, and they just can't find the words.


This is a funny, sometimes heartbreaking, story about sisters, about grief, and about healing. Two girls must come to terms with the death of their baby sister, their mother's unshakable depression, and the ridiculously controlling aunt who takes them in and means well but just doesn't understand children. Willa Jo has to try and make things right in their new home, but she and Aunt Patty keep butting heads. Until the morning the two girls climb up to the roof of her house. Aunt Patty tries everything she can think of to get them down, but in the end, the solution is miraculously simple.

A Newbery Honor Book

An ALA Notable Book

A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year