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So far in the book Counting By 7's by Holly Goldberg Sloan I have learned al lot about the main character   Willow. She is a 12 year old girl that is quite diffrerent from the rest. When reading the first things we learn about Willow is that she was adopted by Jimmy and Roberta Chance. As we read we read about how her parents die since they got in a car accident. Before it continues we get flashbacks to prior the accident. We learn about how Willow gets called down to the office to talk to the principal at her school in California because she was the only one that got a perfect score on a test. The test that she and other  students had to take was a state wide science test for the beginning of the school year. We are introduced to Mai and Qung-ha which are siblings when Willow goes down to the counselor's office for her mandatory check up that she has to do. 

Willow and I are similar in ways yet different in other ways. The first similarity between her and me is that we both are good with numbers. In the first few chapters of the book we get a glimps of how she knows how to manage numbers which was something that right off the bat I was able to make a connection with her. A difference though between the both of us is that Willow likes to use very big medical words. I on the other hand in a way struggle because English isn't my first language so when it comes to certain words I struggle to pronounce them correctly.one similarity that I was able to see was that Willow and I both like the subject science. 

There has been a change from Willow in the beginning of the book to half of the book. In the beginning Willow is very meticulous on the things that she does and makes surethat if she is going to be doing anything that it is just the way she wants it. Half way in the book after she is without her parents she stops caring about the things she use to. From time to time we see how Willow herself compares her self from before the accident to after. Willow starts to not care which causes her to flee the hospital after she gets stitches on her forehead because she fainted and hit her head which caused her to get a cut on her forehead.