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A main character issue that Willow Chance has in “Counting by 7s” is “race”. Willow is a colored individual, and most people in her school at Bakersfield, California, are white. This makes it difficult for her to try to fit in with the rest of her peers, along with her genius mind and desire to understand everything in life.

Michael Xue

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A social group that Willow Chance is in is gardening because gardening is one of Willow’s favorite hobbies, as shown in her garden at her original house and the garden at Dell Duke’s apartment.

Xander Machkoff

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https://teachingkidsnews.com/2013/09/04/people-text-drivers-may-liable-crashes/

This article talks about if you are distracted by your phone while driving, it makes you more likely to get in a car crash, which connects to Counting By 7s because Willow’s parents died in a fatal car accident. This leads to Willow being adopted by Dell Duke and the Nguyen family and Willow learning to grief after her parents death.

Xander Machkoff

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People Who Text A Driver May Be Held Responsible For Crash - Teaching Kids News

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Even though you may not even be in the car, if you text someone who is driving and they respond, you may be in trouble too. (kid-friendly news article)

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This book is about someone who suffers from depression and how he overcomes it. This connects to “Counting by 7s” because Willow also becomes depressed after her parents die. Also, like Matt, the main character of “Reasons to Stay Alive”, Willow overcomes this disease.

Michael Xue

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Counting by 7’s and Fish in a Tree are alike in the way that they are both about the main character’s friends helping them get through a tough time in their life. In Fish in a Tree, is about Ally getting helped by her friends to stop misbehaving in school and get past her dyslexia. In Counting by 7’s, it’s about Mai, Willow’s friend, helping Willow get over her parents dying.

By Jackson Hickey

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This is a trailer for the movie “Wild Plants”. This movie connects to Counting By 7s because Willow Chance has an interest in gardening and plants.

Michael Xue

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Wild Plants (by Nicolas Humbert) - Trailer

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I think the lesson of this novel is to find where you belong. Even if that means doing new things and attempting to do something extremely difficult and improbable. For example, Willow Chance managed to come back from her losses after her parents who adopted her died, without any relatives to help, and only accompanied by a poor family and a school counselor. She fought through hardships to get to where she belonged in life, and never gave up.

Michael Xue

I firmly believe the lesson of this book club book is that loss can change you for the better. This is representative of Willow’s story in Counting by 7s, as she really thought she didn’t need her parents. Willow did not see her parents as a necessity, though she still loved them. After losing them in a brutal car crash, Willow realizes how dependent she was on her parents. She falls into a state of depression and grief after the crash, and comes out better than ever. She realized how important the people around her were, and started fostering those relationships. She slowly realized how the people around you are your soil, and it is important to plant strong roots in them, and how your roots can connect you to other plants in the garden.

Andre Ling

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Willow used to have a garden in her backyard. She told the readers that she loved to garden, and is majorly interested in botany and plants. She loves to garden, and that is why I chose this gif of MR BEAN gardening. Mr BEAN also looks very happy in this gif, and Willow has never felt more alive than when she gardens. Is it pronounced jif or gif?

By jackson

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Willow is a very strange girl, being an orphan of color adopted by a white family. She developed a love for all things nature at an early age, creating her own garden in her backyard. She then gets sent to counselor Dell Duke, being accused of cheating in a state test (which she didn’t) in 6th grade, and makes friends with Mai and Quang-Ha Nguyen. After coming home from counseling one afternoon, she discovers her parents are dead. Launched into a state of depression, she thinks she doesn’t matter in the world. Then, one afternoon, she asks Dell Duke to buy her sunflower seeds. She plants these. These seeds represent Willow’s journey after her parents die, growing and getting over it. After the sunflower seeds have sprouted, Willow writes a proposal to transform a patch of ground in Dell’s apartment, “The Gardens of Glenwood” into a garden to relocate the sunflower plants and possibly plant more greenery. This proposal gets accepted and Dell Duke becomes the building representative, due to the fact that Willow sent the proposal under his name. Eventually, “The Gardens of Glenwood” becomes an actual garden. In the end, she gets formally and legally adopted by the Nguyens, recuperating after her parents death.

Andre Ling

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This song is about parents dying in a car accident. It also has themes of growth and change, which are major themes in the book Counting by 7’s.

By Jackson Hickey