Thursday, January 23, 2014

Counting by 7's

by Holly Goldberg Sloan

Willow is a genius, but not just any genius. One of the off-the-charts, totally weird, super crazy smart about the strangest things type of genius. She's socially awkward, but doesn't care. She's an adoptee, and an only child. She loves her garden and her parents more than anything. But then something terrible happens, and her carefully constructed world falls apart. This is a story about grief, and it's a story about healing, told in the voice of a girl like no one you've ever known.

I loved I'll Be There, Ms. Sloan's other book, so much that I was almost scared to read this one for fear of disappointment, but I shouldn't have been. You'll cry your eyes out and laugh out loud with Willow. One of my favorite books so far this year.

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