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Counting by 7s
Holly Goldberg Sloan

Counting by 7s

Genre:
Fiction
Age Level:
Middle Grade

Willow Chance is a 12-year-old genius, obsessed with nature and diagnosing medical conditions, who finds it comforting to count by 7s. Willow is also an outsider, a girl possibly somewhere on the autism/Asperger’s spectrum (although that is never stated). Suddenly Willow’s world is tragically changed when her parents both die in a car crash, leaving her alone in a baffling world. This story is about her journey to find a fascinatingly diverse and fully believable surrogate family.

Courage & Defiance
Deborah Hopkinson

Courage and Defiance, Stories of Spies, Saboteurs and Survivors in WWII Denmark

Genre:
Nonfiction
Age Level:
Middle Grade

When the Nazis invaded Denmark on Tuesday, April 9, 1940, the people of this tiny country to the north of Germany awoke to a devastating surprise. The government of Denmark surrendered quietly, and the Danes were ordered to go about their daily lives as if nothing had changed. But everything had changed.

headshot of Courtney Summers in a black shirt looking away from the camera

Courtney Summers

“If you tell a story - something real, something true - you get to be alive in other people. And writing feels like the most… the greatest chance I’ll ever have at being - alive.”― Courtney Summers, The Project