Contar de 7 en 7

Format:

Book

Title:

Contar de 7 en 7

Other title(s):

Contar de siete en siete

Uniform Title:

Counting by 7s. Spanish

Author:

Sloan, Holly Goldberg, 1958-

ISBN:

9786075271798

Edition:

Primera edición en Océano exprés.

Publication:

México, D.F. : Océano Exprés, 2017.

Physical Description:

408 pages ; 22 cm

Summary:

"Willow tiene doce años, es superdotada y su gran pasión son las plantas, las enfermedades y el número siete. Sus padres adoptivos son su única familia y sus verdaderos amigos, pero cuando éstos mueren en un accidente se da cuenta de que está sola en un mundo con el que no es capaz de relacionarse. A partir de ese momento, la vida de Willow se convierte en un viaje transformador en el que gracias a sus manías y a su extraordinaria sensibilidad, y sobre todo, gracias a los atipicos personajes con los que se encuentra (un incapaz consejero pedagógico, un taxista mexicano, dos hermanos vietnamitas con personalidades antagónicas y una nueva mamá adoptiva presa de un fracaso amoroso), comienza a encontrar su sitio en este imperfecto mundo."--Back cover.

Twelve-year-old genius and outsider Willow Chance must figure out how to connect with other people and find a surrogate family for herself after her parents are killed in a car accident.

Subject(s):

Genius -- Fiction.

Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Fiction.

High schools -- Fiction.

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Summary

Willow Chance es una niña superdotada de doce años de edad, obsesionada con la naturaleza y el diagnóstico de enfermedades, y a quien le encanta contar de siete en siete. Nunca le ha resultado fácil congeniar con otras personas que no fueran sus padres adoptivos, sin embargo, eso no le había evitado llevar una vida tranquila y feliz... hasta ahora. De repente, el mundo de Willow cambia trágicamente cuando sus padres mueren en un accidente de coche, dejándola sola en un mundo desconcertante.

Willow Chance is a twelve-year-old genius, obsessed with nature and diagnosing medical conditions, who finds it comforting to count by 7s. It has never been easy for her to connect with anyone other than her adoptive parents, but that hasn't kept her from leading a quietly happy life . . . until now. Suddenly Willow's world is tragically changed when her parents both die in a car crash, leaving her alone in a baffling world. The triumph of this book is that it is not a tragedy. This extraordinarily odd, but extraordinarily endearing, girl manages to push through her grief. Her journey to find a fascinatingly diverse and fully believable surrogate family is a joy and a revelation to read.

Author Notes

Holly Goldberg Sloan was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She attended college at Wellesley in Massachusetts. After graduating, she worked in commercial advertising as a production assistant, then a script supervisor, a producer, and finally as a commercial director. She also writes screenplays. She sold her first screenplay at the age of twenty-four to Paramount Pictures. Her screenplays include Made in America, Collision Course: The Crocodile Hunter Movie, Angels in the Outfield, and The Big Green, which she also directed. She has written several books including I'll Be There, Keeper, and Counting By 7s.

(Bowker Author Biography)