![]() ![]() Her journey to find a fascinatingly diverse and fully believable surrogate family is a joy and a revelation to read. This extraordinarily odd, but extraordinarily endearing, girl manages to push through her grief. ![]() The triumph of this book is that it is "not" a tragedy. ![]() Suddenly Willow's world is tragically changed when her parents both die in a car crash, leaving her alone in a baffling world. It has never been easy for her to connect with anyone other than her adoptive parents, but that hasn t kept her from leading a quietly happy life. Willow Chance is a twelve-year-old genius, obsessed with nature and diagnosing medical conditions, who finds it comforting to count by 7s. In the tradition of "Out of My Mind," "Wonder, "and "Mockingbird, " this is an intensely moving middle grade novel about being an outsider, coping with loss, and discovering the true meaning of family. ![]()
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