Welcome to the 2014 edition of the Junior Smackdown! This is where the grade 7 munchkins of Vimy Ridge Academy will devour 16 YA books to find one champion.
The Competition
- A Tale Dark and Grimm
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Airborn
- And Then There Were None
- Counting by 7's
- Divergent
- Ender's Game
- Freak the Mighty
- I Am Number Four
- Malice
- Murder on the Orient Express
- Stargirl
- The Hobbit
- The Maze Runner
- The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B
- Wonder
Thursday, 10 April 2014
Counting by 7s- Amy C
Counting by 7s is a un-describable book about the life of a girl named Willow Chance when her whole world falls apart in the course of an afternoon. This child genius goes on an adventure of picking her life up after everything is gone. Along the way she meets Dell Duke and his counselling system of the Strange (categorising kids who need help), Mai who soon becomes her best friend, Quang-Ha (Mai's extremely weird brother), Pattie/Dung Nguyen (Mai and Quang-Ha's mom), and last but not least Jario Hernandez (a taxi driver that sees Willow as his angel).
Through Willows passions: Counting by 7s, diagnosing medical diseases, and plants hosts her self up into a new version of herself, it is both amazing and sad. Her friends help and through the journey they encounter many problems although she can't face the fact that her parents are now dead and her councillor (for the first time in his life) has some hope she struggles through to the end. I liked this book because it puts you in the perspective of the character Willow Chance and carries you through the book almost as if you were in her shoes. I recommend this book to readers who like drama novels and life stories; however if you are a person who gets lost easily this book is the slightest bit disjointed through to the end and might not be the best for you.
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umm.. its un-describable, but it sounds like a cool book. Nice job
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