Getting Near to Baby

by Audrey Couloumbis Narrated by Mischa Barton

Overview

Willa Joe is up on the roof at Aunt Patty's house. She went up to see the sunrise, and Little Sister followed her, like she always does. But by
mid-morning, Willa Jo is still up on that roof, and she knows it wasn't just the sunrise that brought her there. Audrey Couloumbis has perfectly
captured the pervasive feelings that can take hold when tragedy strikes-and the slow, subtle revelations that come when one can finally get near to the source.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940172045691
Publisher:	Penguin Random House
Publication date:	11/15/2019
Edition description:	Unabridged
Age Range:	8 - 11 Years

Related Subjects

• Awards
• Kids
• Fiction & Literature - Kids
• Emotions & Behaviors - Kids Fiction
• Family Life - Kids Fiction
• Health & Medicine - Kids Fiction
• Social Issues - Kids Fiction
• Marshall, Elizabeth (-1964)
• 2000 Newbery Honor Book

Read an Excerpt

Things don't feel right here.

I want to open my eyes in the morning to see my very own wallpaper with the tiny blue flowers and pink rosebuds. Aunt Patty does not believe in putting up wallpaper, not even in the bathroom. She says mold grows behind it.

I want Mom to read to us for an hour before bedtime, all of us in a clump like alligators in the sun so we can all look at the pictures together. Aunt Patty tucks us into bed before it is even full dark. We want our mom. We're worried about her having to sleep all alone. We worry that she doesn't eat right, now that she doesn't have us to feed. We miss her.

I hear Aunt Patty's bossy voice, rousing Uncle Hob out of his bed. She's telling him he has to come outside to order us down. Or to plead with us, whichever he thinks will work. That sad feeling I have hardens into a mad feeling and I don't think I'll ever get down off this roof. I'll stay here till kingdom comes.

(Continues…)

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