Counting by 7s - Holly Goldberg Sloan

Category: Children, General Fiction
Language: English
Keywords: Adoption Family Loss Middle School optimism Special Child

Written by Holly Goldberg Sloan
Read by Robin Miles
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Publisher: Books on Tape
Release date: August 16, 2022
Duration: 07:17:43

This is an intensely moving middle grade novel about being an outsider, coping with loss, and discovering the true meaning of family.

Willow Chance is a twelve-year-old genius, obsessed with nature and diagnosing medical conditions, who finds it comforting to count by 7s. 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 . . . until now.

Suddenly Willow’s world is tragically changed when her parents both die in a car crash, leaving her alone in a baffling world. The triumph of this book is that it is not a tragedy. This extraordinarily odd, but extraordinarily endearing, girl manages to push through her grief. Her journey to find a fascinatingly diverse and fully believable surrogate family is a joy and a revelation to read.

“Veteran narrator Miles deftly reads this audio edition. She creates a unique voice for Willow, breathing life into the character and drawing readers into the story. Miles’s reading is well paced and crisp, and her characterizations are as apt as they are enjoyable. This is an audiobook that will demand repeated listens. Ages 10–up.”

Please, keep this copy of this special book seeded..