Tuesday, 8 December 2015

Counting by Sevens Book Review by Toshka

The book Counting by Sevens by Holly Goldbbourgh Swan it’s a fictional story about a 12 year old adopted girl who is a genius. Her parents have died in a car cash two mouths before the main part of the story begins.

The main character in Counting by Sevens is a girl named Willow Chance. Willows life took a hard unexpected turn when her parents died in a terrible car crash. She now lives in Hagen Oakes with her friends Mai, her brother Quang-ha and their mother Pattie. She is now under the guidance of a councilor, at a new school and her only friends in life are her new family.

The main conflict in this story is Willow her self, well her mind in particular. She is always thinking that her friend’s ideas are not right and Dell the guidance councilor is not right for his job. This is mainly because she is a genius and is ahead of most of the people in her life. She has also never really interacted with other people before. Also another conflict in this book that is that Willow has now lived with Pattie for a couple months and has settled in but Pattie was suppose to only be a “temporary” home, but now Willow is having to go move into a new family so she starts running away anytime they go to the adoption center.

Holly Goldbbourgh Swan was very successful in presenting the central idea of this story. The central idea was not ery clear but yet still captivated me. I thought that she had a great idea. I found this story really creative and nothing like I had ever read before. Although I did not think that this book was very powerful nor memorable it was still a very interesting. Also this book made me think a lot about how I would feel and what I would do differently if I were in Willows situation.



Counting by Sevens was an amazing book it was very interesting and the always changing plot made me want to keep reading forever. It did not have a very big impact on me. But, I still really enjoyed reading this book.
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5 comments:

  1. Anonymous10 December 2015 at 15:05

    Dear Toshka

    Could explain the plot in further details? Explain how her being a genius affects her everyday life?

    Thanks

    Daanish

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  2. Anonymous10 December 2015 at 17:24

    Dear Toshka

    Was Willow ever bullied in the book? Was she bullied because she was smart at school or outside of school in the book?

    Sincerely, Hunter

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  3. Unknown10 December 2015 at 18:11

    Dear Toshka,

    You said that the author presented their central idea very successfully. I was wondering what that central idea was?

    Thanks,
    Ewan

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  4. Anonymous14 December 2015 at 16:25

    Dear Toshka,

    You presented the novel very well. In the third paragraph you said that Counting by Sevens made you think a lot about how you would feel and what you would do differently if you were in Willows situation. I was wondering if you could explain to me what you would feel and do differently if you were in her situation.

    Thank you
    - Armita

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  5. Anonymous15 December 2015 at 18:52

    Dear Toshka,

    Your book review was excellent and Counting by Sevens sounds like a very interesting novel. You mentioned that Willow is constantly thinking that Dell is not the right fit for his job. In what ways did Willow believe that her guidance councillor was not doing things right, and what sort of person would Willow have liked her guidance councillor to be?

    Thanks,
    Olivia

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