Counting by sevens
Author - Holly Goldberg Sloan
Grade/Reading Level - 3-5
Counting by Sevens is an amazing book. It is about a girl named Willow Chance. Willow was adopted on the seventh day of the seventh month. When something bad happens she counts by sevens to calm down. Willow is a genius. In school she was always classified as "highly gifted." One day in school she has to take a standardized test. A few weeks later the school gets the results. She is sent to the principal's office for cheating, but she didn’t cheat. The teacher assigns her to a guidance counselor. The counselor’s name is Dell Duke. Dell Duke is fascinated by Willow and tells her to come back every day. One day she meets a girl named Mai. Mai is there because her brother goes
there. Mai and Willow become friends. One day Mai convinces Dell to take them to Foster's Freeze. When Dell is dropping Willow off at her house, she finds several policemen in her driveway. They tell her that her parents were killed in a car crash. Then Mai jumps out of the car and says that Willow's family has been a friend of her family for ages. Mai's family gets to take custody of Willow until she is adopted. What happens along the way? I'm not going to tell you. I will tell you this though, you need to read this book!
- Submitted by Shira
Grade/Reading Level - 3-5
Counting by Sevens is an amazing book. It is about a girl named Willow Chance. Willow was adopted on the seventh day of the seventh month. When something bad happens she counts by sevens to calm down. Willow is a genius. In school she was always classified as "highly gifted." One day in school she has to take a standardized test. A few weeks later the school gets the results. She is sent to the principal's office for cheating, but she didn’t cheat. The teacher assigns her to a guidance counselor. The counselor’s name is Dell Duke. Dell Duke is fascinated by Willow and tells her to come back every day. One day she meets a girl named Mai. Mai is there because her brother goes
there. Mai and Willow become friends. One day Mai convinces Dell to take them to Foster's Freeze. When Dell is dropping Willow off at her house, she finds several policemen in her driveway. They tell her that her parents were killed in a car crash. Then Mai jumps out of the car and says that Willow's family has been a friend of her family for ages. Mai's family gets to take custody of Willow until she is adopted. What happens along the way? I'm not going to tell you. I will tell you this though, you need to read this book!
- Submitted by Shira