NIST comments:
Y7: "very realistic"
Collection
Publication
Puffin Books (2014), Edition: Reprint, 416 pages
Description
Twelve-year-old genius and outsider Willow Chance must figure out how to connect with other people and find a surrogate family for herself after her parents are killed in a car accident.
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Awards
A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book (Fiction — 2013)
Nebraska Golden Sower Award (Nominee — 2016)
Texas Bluebonnet Award (Nominee — 2015)
Soaring Eagle Book Award (Nominee — 2015)
Young Hoosier Book Award (Nominee — Middle Grade — 2017)
Massachusetts Children's Book Award (Nominee — 2016)
Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award (Nominee — 2016)
Georgia Children's Book Award (Finalist — Grades 4-8 — 2015)
Great Stone Face Book Award (Nominee — 2015)
BCCB Blue Ribbon Book (Fiction — 2013)
Utah Beehive Book Award (Nominee — Young Adult — 2016)
Kentucky Bluegrass Award (Nominee — Grades 6-8 — 2015)
Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award (Nominee — Grades 6-8 — 2015)
Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award (Nominee — 2016)
Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Reader's Choice Award (Nominee — Junior — 2016)
Buckeye Children's & Teen Book Award (Nominee — Grades 6-8 — 2014)
William Allen White Children's Book Award (Nominee — Grades 6-8 — 2016)
Nutmeg Book Award (Nominee — Teen — 2016)
Great Lakes Great Books Award (Winner — 2015)
Vermont Golden Dome Book Award (Nominee)
Iowa Teen Award (Nominee — 2016)
Mark Twain Readers Award (Nominee — 2016)
Sunshine State Young Reader's Award (Nominee — Grades 6-8 — 2016)
Nevada Young Readers' Award (Nominee — Intermediate — 2016)
Oregon Reader's Choice Award (Nominee — 2016)
Grand Canyon Reader Award (Nominee — 2016)
Blue Hen Book Award (Nominee — Middle Readers — 2017)
Louisiana Young Readers' Choice Award (Nominee — 2016)
North Carolina Children's Book Award (Nominee — 2016)
Land Of Enchantment Book Award (Nominee — Young Adult — 2016)
NCSLMA Battle of the Books (Middle School — 2019)
Concorde Book Award (Shortlist — 2015)
Virginia Readers' Choice (Nominee — Middle School — 2016)
Black-Eyed Susan Book Award (Nominee — Grades 6-9 — 2015)
UKLA Book Award (Shortlist — 2015)
Great Lakes Great Reads Award (2013-04 — 2013)
Colorado Children's Book Award (Nominee — 2015)
Volunteer State Book Award (Nominee — Middle School — 2016)
NCSLMA YA Book Award (Winner — Middle School — 2015)
Evergreen Teen Book Award (Nominee — 2016)
Isinglass Teen Read Award (Nominee — 2015)
Keystone to Reading Book Award (Winner — 2015)
Maud Hart Lovelace Award (2nd Place — 2016)
Hampshire Book Awards (Shortlist — Hampshire Book Award — 2015)
Rhode Island Teen Book Award (Nominee — 2015)
Three Stars Book Award (Nominee — 2017)
E.B. White Read-Aloud Award (Honor Book — 2014)
NPR: Books We Love (2013)
Best Fiction for Young Adults (Selection — 2014)
Read Aloud Indiana Book Award (Middle Grades — 2016)
Notable Children's Book (2014)
Nerdy Book Award (Middle Grade Fiction — 2014)
Los Angeles Public Library Best of the Year (Teen — 2013)
Teacher Favorites Award (2014)
OYAN Book Rave (2014)
Chicago Public Library Best of the Best: Kids (Fiction for Older Readers — 2013)
Language
Original language
English