Willow Chance is a twelve-year-old genius, obsessed with nature and diagnosing m
edical conditions, who finds it comforting to count by 7s. It has never been eas
y 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 wor
ld is tragically changed when her parents both die in a car crash, leaving her a
lone 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 th
rough her grief. Her journey to find a fascinatingly diverse and fully believabl
e surrogate family is a joy and a revelation to read.
