Counting By 7s By: Holly Goldberg Sloan

So right know the book I'm reading is called Counting By 7s and at first I was like "this book is boring and slow" but then the parents died all the sudden and then I was like "Omg what will Willow do? Is she going to be thrown into foster care where she will be treated unfairly and then this book is going to end up being one of those book." Anyway right now the book is about this girl named Willow Chance, thats a complete genius but her principle thinks that she's really just a cheater which got me really mad, so if we as students pass every test at a new school and show that we already understand the topic we get in as much trouble as not doing your homework, because thats what happened to Willow and now she has to go to therapy. Now Willow's problem isn't even that she has to meet with a councilor that doesn't even like his job but that her whole world has been chewed and spit out into the opposite of a descent life. So towards the end of what I have already read Willow's parents die in a car accident on their way to this appointment the mom had because she had just been diagnosed with breast cancer. This makes me wonder, what if the parents hadn't died. Would this book have turned out to be the story of a girl that had to deal with her mother's caner( by the way they weren't even intending to tell Willow until the mom was cancer free) instead of the story of a girl that has to deal with her depression over her parents dyeing. I think the theme of this book is going to be the classic,"Things always turn out for the better even when it seems your life is emotionally over."

The genre of Counting By 7s is realistic fiction. There isn't any magic or anything like that but it also talks about things that do happen, so I know that it's realistic fiction. The book is about a fictional character (Willow), going through something that often happens in real life. Its not historical fiction because although loosing your parents does happen, the story isn't about a specific person but more of an excample of someting that does happen.