This is a very sweet story. It stars Willa Jo. It opens at dawn on the roof of Willa Jo's Aunt's house. With her is Little Sister, who hasn't spoken since Baby died.
The story takes you through the trials of living with the aunt, and the grief of losing Baby. It's touching, and sad, and a little funny in places.
Also it takes forever to get to how Baby died. She makes you work for it. Spoiler: she drank bad water at a fair, probably died of dysentery, but since Willa Jo is telling the story and she's a kid you don't get any medical details out of it.
I found this book on a discount rack outside of a Books-A-Million and after reading it I have no idea what it was doing out there. It's a freaking Newberry! Why did no one else want to buy this?? That's what's wrong with kids today: nobody appreciates good literature. They're all reading fucking vampire books. Have you seen young adult bookshelves lately??? Everything is a Twilight clone. Everything is about vampires. Or werewolves. Or fallen angels. Every book cover is black with a bit of a wispy-looking image on the front in bold colors. STOP READING STEPHANIE MEYER WANNABEES!!!!
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