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Willow Chance is a 12-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.

Willow Chance is a 12-year-old genius, obsessed with nature and diagnosing medical conditions, who finds it comforting to count by sevens. 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.

Avery Bloom, who's bookish, intense, and afraid of many things, particularly deep water, lives in New York City. Bett Devlin, who's fearless, outgoing, and loves all animals as well as the ocean, lives in California. What they have in common is that they are both 12 years old and are both being raised by single, gay dads. When their dads fall in love, Bett and Avery are sent, against their will, to the same sleepaway camp. Their dads hope they will find common ground and become friends - and possibly, one day, even sisters.

It's been almost a year since Sila's mother traveled halfway around the world to Turkey, hoping to secure the immigration paperwork that would allow her to return to her family in the United States. The long separation is almost impossible for Sila to withstand. But things change when Sila accompanies her father (who is a mechanic) outside their Oregon town to fix a truck. There, behind an enormous stone wall, she meets a grandfatherly man who only months before won the state lottery.

Julia is very short for her age, but by the end of the summer run of The Wizard of Oz, she'll realize how big she is inside, where it counts. She hasn't ever thought of herself as a performer, but when the wonderful director of Oz casts her as a Munchkin, she begins to see herself in a new way. As Julia becomes friendly with the poised and wise Olive and with her deeply artistic neighbor, Mrs. Chang, Julia's own sense of self as an artist grows.

Emily Bell believes in destiny. To her, being forced to sing a solo in the church choir - despite her average voice - is fate: because it's while she's singing that she first sees Sam. At first sight they are connected. Sam Border wishes he could escape, but there's nowhere for him to run. He and his little brother, Riddle, have spent their entire lives constantly uprooted by their unstable father. As Sam and Riddle are welcomed into the Bells' lives, they witness the warmth and protection of a family for the first time.

Das neue Jugendbuch von Meg Wolitzer. Avery Bloom, ein ernsthafter Bücherwurm, voll "exzessiver Ängste", insbesondere vor Gewässern und Hunden, lebt in New York. Bett Devlin, eine furchtlose, extrovertierte Surferin, liebt Tiere aller Art und wohnt in Kalifornien. Gemeinsam haben die beiden Mädchen nur ihr Alter von 12 Jahren und ihre alleinerziehenden schwulen Väter. Als die Töchter erfahren, dass sie gegen ihren Willen in ein Sommerlager gesteckt werden sollen um Freundinnen zu werden und damit ihre Väter sich auf einer Motorrad-Reise in China besser kennenlernen können, beginnen Bett und Avery sich per E-Mail auszutauschen.

Willow ist ein Energiebündel, denkt immer positiv und interessiert sich für fast alles: Sie studiert das Verhalten von Fledermäusen, züchtet Zitrusfrüchte im Vorgarten, diagnostiziert Krankheiten und begeistert sich für die Schönheit der Zahl 7. Ihr größter Wunsch ist es, gleichaltrige Freunde zu finden - dafür lernt sie sogar Vietnamesisch. Doch dann passiert das Unfassbare: Willows Adoptiveltern verunglücken bei einem Autounfall. Es ist wie ein Wunder, wie Willow mit ihrer einzigartigen Art zu denken und ihrem ungebrochenem Charme ihre Welt zusammenhält.

Emily Bell has it all - or so she thinks. She's in love with a boy named Sam, and this summer is destined to be the best they've ever known. No one suspects that Sam's violent father, who blames the Bell family for his incarceration, is planning a jailbreak. Meanwhile Sam and Emily's idyllic romance is under fire from a charismatic new girl in town, and Emily begins to question the loyalty of the person she thought she could trust most.