Counting By 7s

"In Counting By 7s, 12-year-old Willow Chance knows that she’s odd. Being a genius, she thinks she has everything figured out. However, when her adopted parents die in a car crash, Willow finds she cannot fathom the depth of her grief. She’s befriended by Mai, a strong-willed Vietnamese-American girl, and Willow moves in with Mai’s family, setting off a chain reaction of unexpected events. Holly Goldberg Sloan’s tender and funny novel is a book of small miracles and will make a believer out of you. (For ages 10 and up)"