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Counting By 7s
Counting by 7s
Book Category:
Juvenile Fiction > Family > Orphans & Foster Homes
Author:
Sloan, Holly Goldberg
ISBN 10:
014242286X
ISBN 13:
9780142422861
Price:
USD $8.99
Publication Year:
2014

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Penguin Random House.

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Book Description

Willow Chance is a quirky yet appealing12-year-old genius who is obsessed with nature and diagnosing medical conditions and finds it comforting to count by sevens. She has never found it easy to relate to others, except to her patient, loving parents who adopted her when she was a baby. But now Willow's parents have both died in a car crash, and Willow is left without any suitable relatives to step in and care for her. Yet somehow she manages to push through her grief and bring together a fascinatingly diverse surrogate family for herself: her underachieving guidance counselor, Dell; a struggling nail salon owner named Pattie and her two teenaged kids, outspoken Mai and sullen Quant-Ha; and a taxi driver named Jairo who believes that Willow just may be his guardian angel. Thoroughly charming, this is an original and moving story about finding your place in an uncertain world.