Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan

Fourteen-year-old homeschooled genius Willow Chance convinces her adoptive parents to let her attend high school to observe people her own age, and soon she has connected with a group of eccentrics who stand by her when tragedy strikes.

Despite being slightly annoyed by the constant change in voice (not just POV), I absolutely loved it. I loved the air in between the short paragraphs and the punch of the short sentences. The humour. The depth, the breaking apart and then bringing everything back together. The balance.
So well done.

What a great book! I really want to read this with my middle school students.

Given the number of accolades this book garnered, I was expecting something more. Its very cute and I laughed at how neatly it was all tied up at the end but I did not feel emotionally invested by any of it.