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  • Getting Near to Baby

    Audrey Couloumbis, Mischa Barton, Listening Library

    Audiobook (Listening Library, Sept. 16, 2008)
    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.
  • Getting Near to Baby

    Audrey Couloumbis

    Paperback (Puffin Books, April 24, 2001)
    A Southern charmer for fans of Newbery Honor book Three Times Lucky by Sheila TurnageAudrey 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 BookAn ALA Notable BookA School Library Journal Best Book of the Year
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  • Getting Near to Baby

    Audrey Couloumbis

    eBook (Puffin Books, Aug. 27, 2001)
    A Southern charmer for fans of Newbery Honor book Three Times Lucky by Sheila TurnageAudrey 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 BookAn ALA Notable BookA School Library Journal Best Book of the Year
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  • Getting Near to Baby

    Audrey Couloumbis

    Hardcover (Scholastic Inc, Jan. 1, 1999)
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  • Getting Near to Baby

    Audrey Couloumbis

    Library Binding (Perfection Learning, April 24, 2001)
    After their baby sister dies, Willa Jo and Little Sister's family falls apart. Their mother sinks deep into an unshakable depression, so the two older girls are sent to live with their strict Aunt Patty and her husband. Since Little Sister refuses to talk, Willa Jo has to try and make things right in their new home, but she can't stop missing her mother or the life the four of them had before Baby died. 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 stay there. 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.
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  • Getting near to baby

    Audrey Couloumbis

    Hardcover (Putnam Juvenile, Sept. 13, 1999)
    After Baby dies, Willa Jo and Little Sister are sent to live with Aunt Patty while their mother goes off on her own to cope with the loss, yet Willa Jo has pain too and only wishes she could be with her mother during these difficult times.
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  • Getting Near to Baby

    Audrey Couloumbis

    Library Binding (Paw Prints 2008-06-26, June 26, 2008)
    When twelve-year-old Willa Jo climbs onto the roof at Aunt Patty's house to see the sunrise, she never expects the conflicted feelings she's had for three weeks to crystallize into a stubbornness that will keep her there all day. But once she's up there, Willa Jo can't seem to come down. Coming down means having to explain herself. And how can she explain?After Baby died, Little Sister stopped talking. Then Aunt Patty took the girls away from Mom to give her time to pull herself together. Aunt Patty has a million rules about everything, and she seems to have forgotten that Willa Jo and Little Sister are trying to cope with losing Baby, too. And missing Mom something fierce.In this beautifully-structured novel--which takes place all in one day--two generations of big sisters struggle with what being a big sister means. Couloumbis masterfully shows us the pervasive feelings that can take hold when tragedy strikes and the slow, subtle healing that comes when one can finally get near to the source.
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  • Getting Near to Baby

    Audrey Couloumbis

    Hardcover (Thorndike Press, Sept. 2, 2000)
    Newbery Honor BookOne day, Willa Jo decides she has had it up to here with Aunt Patty, so she goes up on the roof to get some fresh air. Naturally, Little Sister follows her up there -- Little Sister follows her everywhere. When Aunt Patty tells her to come down, she decides she just doesn't want to. Willa Jo and Little Sister came to live with Aunt Patty three weeks ago when their baby sister died, and they want to go home. They're worried about the way their Mom cries and sleeps all the time, and they wonder what's happening to her. The only thing that Willa Jo can think of to do is to stay up on the roof.
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  • Getting Near to Baby

    Audrey Couloumbis

    Paperback (Scholastic Canada, Limited, Jan. 1, 2001)
    Willa Jo is up on the roof at Aunt Patty's house. She went up there to see the sun rise, and Little Sister folllowed her, like she always does. But by midmorning , willa Jo is still up on that roof, and she knows it wasn't just the sunrise that brought her there. The trouble is, once she climbs up, Willa Jo can't seem to come down. Coming down would mean she'd have to explain about Baby. And how can she explain.
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  • Getting Near to Baby

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    Unknown Binding (Penguin Group USA, Sept. 1, 1999)
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  • Getting Near to Baby

    Audrey Couloumbis

    Audio Cassette (Listening Library, April 1, 2001)
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  • Getting near to baby

    Audrey Couloumbis

    Hardcover (Putnam Juvenile, Aug. 31, 1999)
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