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. A National Public Radio Best Book of the Year. A Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Nominee. A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year. A Texas Bluebonnet Award Nominee 2014-2015 Master List. A Kids' Indie Next List Top Ten Book- #4, Best Books of Autumn 2013.
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