Character Analysis Of Willow In Holly Goldberg Sloan's Counting

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Recently I read Counting by 7s, by Holly Goldberg Sloan. The story is about an adopted girl named Willow Chance who loses her parents. This girl does lots of things that normal girls her age won't ever do in their lifetimes. Willow's world is changed when her parents died in a car crash.

Willow is an African girl with long black hair who follows her friends Dell Duke, Mai, and Quang-Ha. Willow may be a little rattled throughout the book, but she remains a solid person. She is very intelligent, and also very strange. Throughout the book, Willow has to deal with being an outsider. She may have been through a lot, but as the author put it, "I'm not afraid of anything anymore."

I am a tall person with brown hair, and I am quiet, but

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