Counting by 7s
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781848124165 (1848124163)
Publish date: May 1st 2014
Publisher: Piccadilly Press Ltd
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
There is so much to talk about Counting by 7s that for a middle-grade book, there is philosophy that can't be ignored. This is a story of a gifted girl named Willow Chance that has a significant character of 7s and has a way about herself that nobody understood her. Adopted by foster parents - trage...
WOW. Amazing. And how is this book not a movie yet?! I would cry all the way through.
Just as Natasha did, I enjoyed the book enormously. I was totally enthralled and more than wiling to suspend my disbelief in order to enjoy the string of coincidences, good and bad, that were almost magical. It is a charming, humane, warm sort of book with the happy ending that implies.But there was...
***Note: this review assumes that you've read the book.*** One-sentence summary: a nice ensemble piece that shows you can build a family from disparate people, as long as there's love and acceptance; but the story is undermined somewhat by the fact that all the actors (even the flawed ones) are al...
I haven't loved a middle grade novel this much since Holes. I didn't want it to end. Love love love. One of my favorites of 2013.
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