and Oregon.She attended college at Wellesley in Massachusetts (with her junior year of study done at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire). Holly Goldberg Sloan was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan and spent a peripatetic childhood (following her Professor father and architect mother) living in California, The Netherlands, Istanbul, Turkey (where she went to high school), Washington D.C. Counting by 7s is a triumph.”-Maria Semple, author of Where’d You Go, Bernadette

Holly Goldberg Sloan has created distinct characters who will stay with you long after you finish the book.”-Sharon Creech, Newbery Award-winning author of Walk Two Moons “In achingly beautiful prose, Holly Goldberg Sloan has written a delightful tale of transformation that’s a celebration of life in all its wondrous, hilarious and confounding glory. This is a gorgeous, funny, and heartwarming novel that I’ll never forget.”-John Corey Whaley, author of Where Things Come Back “Willow Chance subtly drew me into her head and her life, so much so that I was holding my breath for her by the end. “Holly Goldberg Sloan writes about belonging in a way I’ve never quite seen in any other book. 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. 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. 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.

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