Counting by 7’s book review By: Azalea flores bayne

Setting[s] There are multiple settings for Counting By 7’s (CB7), so I will only name a few. First to start off, there is Sequoia Middle School where Willow gets into “trouble”. Then she is to go to Dell Duke, her new counselor. Where the next setting is Dell Duke’s office, a stuffy trailer. During the Cheddar incident, Willow accidently meets 2 new people.

Setting[s] Due to the horrible crash Willow now has stay with Mai and Quang-Ha the two new people. The next setting is at Mai and Quang-Ha’s mother’s (Pattie Nguyen) house. From there they advance for Dell’s apartment. For their garage of a house is not suitable. There are many more but those are the main settings.

point[s] of view The point of view is first person through the whole book. It does not change even though the characters change. This book is something a little different, It has multiple characters putting their spin on the story.

Point[s] of view The reason why I say first person is because the characters of CB7 use words in their time such as me, myself, and I. I would like to make up a new point of view called First person (random) Polylogic because Polylogic means multiple thoughts.

Theme I think the theme is Loss of Innocence because Willow had a nice house beautiful garden Lovely parents and then all gone.

Theme Her second pair of parents gone. Willow didn’t have it anymore. Stoped counting by sevens. The world hit her hard.she didn’t realize what happened.

FlashBacks The author put in a flashback to Back up the rising action. To have how it came, the before how she was doing. She flash-backed Willow’s problems and the parents problems the flashback was mainly in paragraphs 2-15.

Foreshadowing in CB7 The author foreshadowed when Pattie took Willow in that maybe they would be closer than friends, to be family. And also when Pattie was staying out late was she really working? So you can say Patties a little shady.

3 Quotes and why “ A word lost, a world unsuspected beckons to new places and no whiteness (lost) is so white as the memory of whiteness“ This is what Willow said to the woman in city hall. To why she was there a poem she memorized. Of what’s lost.

3 Quotes and why 2. Not quite a quote but close enough But Mai, speaking rapid fire Vietnamese, raised her voice above his. This wasn’t about lying. This was about a car accident and a girl who had lost her parents. Mai only cared about that. This shows that Mai cared for a girl she barely knew and loved her.

3 quotes and why 3. Also not a quote but meh. She said that they needed a real root system to achieve their potential. Don’t we all, thought Mai as she hurried toward her mother in the distance. Don’t we all. It leaves you hanging like “what”? And makes you think

Beginning -> end Willow: Happy, innocent, lucky -> understanding, lucky, has family to hold on to. Dell: Confused, new, unready-> figuring it out, happy. Pattie: Secretive, poor -> actually sort of rich, mothering

Opinion This book just went somewhere you’d thought it wouldn’t. Willow has a sister though they are not blood sisters, they love each other. Now a family they do things and fight together. This book brings you up starting at chapter 1 Then brings you down at chapter 15.

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