Counting by 7s

Label

Counting by 7s

Statement of responsibility

Holly Goldberg Sloan

Title variation

Counting by sevens

Creator

• Sloan, Holly Goldberg, 1958-

Author

• Sloan, Holly Goldberg, 1958-

Subject

• Gardening -- Juvenile fiction
• Schools -- Fiction
• Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Fiction
• High schools -- Juvenile fiction
• Genius -- Juvenile fiction
• Orphans -- Juvenile fiction
• Schools -- Juvenile fiction
• Genius -- Fiction
• Orphans -- Fiction
• Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Juvenile fiction
• Gardening -- Fiction
• High schools -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction
• Juvenile fiction

Language

eng

Summary

Twelve-year-old genius and outsider Willow Chance must figure out how to connect with other people and find a surrogate family for herself after her parents are killed in a car accident

Subject

• Realistic fiction
• Genius
• Fatal traffic accidents
• Girl orphans
• Parents -- Death
• Preteen girls
• Twelve-year-old girls
• Girl misfits
• Multiple perspectives

Genre

• Multiple perspectives
• Realistic fiction

Story line

• Character-driven

Character

• Ability diverse

Award

• Great Lakes Great Books Award (Michigan), Grades 6-8, 2014.
• Keystone to Reading Book Award (Pennsylvania), Middle School level, 2015.
• Nutmeg Children's Book Award, Teen category, 2016.
• School Library Journal Best Books: Fiction, 2013
• YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults, 2014.
• ALA Notable Children's Book, 2014

Awards note

A Junior Library Guild selection

Cataloging source

DLC

Date time place

Teen Nov2013

Dewey number

[Fic]

Index

no index present

Intended audience

• 10-12
• 5-7
• 770

Intended audience source

Lexile

LC call number

PZ7.S633136

LC item number

Cou 2012

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/lexile

770

Literary form

fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 5
• 8

Target audience

adolescent