This is one smart, resourceful 12-year-old.Īlternating chapters are told in the voices of her school counselor and an older girl whose Vietnamese mom runs a nail salon. Give credit to her adoptive parents, who ‘Really Truly L-O-V-E’ Willow. Instead, she teaches herself Vietnamese, researches rare diseases, and tends her garden. Ever,’ Willow seems untroubled by being outside the mainstream. Acknowledging both her strangeness and that, despite being a thinker, she’s ‘never the teacher’s pet. Willow Chance – a perfect name for the highly-gifted narrator – begins chapter two of Counting by 7s by going back to the beginning, in a new school where she knows no one. If the story’s skillfully written and the characters cleverly conceived, it’s hard to stop. “If you know by the end of chapter one that the narrator’s parents have been killed, do you keep on reading?
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