This book has got such an amazing setup, the first chapter kills me and make me want to take the main character up in my arms and hold her tight, but I know she’d squirm. I know because author Holly Goldberg Sloan paints her so precisely. Willow is super intelligent, and her quirky obsessions with the number 7, medical conditions, and plants, make me want to keep reading just to be with her longer. I didn’t just read this book, I studied it. Author Sloan deals out so much information in the first ten pages and yet it isn’t confusing or hard to keep track of. I didn’t know where it was headed, but I knew I was in good hands.
I give you some lines that capture Willow, and wish I could give you the whole book:
I’m about to start a new school.
I’m an only child.
I’m adopted.
And I’m different.
As in strange.
But I know it and that takes the edge off. At least for me.
