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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 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.

It's been almost a year since Sila's mum travelled 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 bear. 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.

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.

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.

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.

Es ist fast ein Jahr her, dass Silas Mutter in ihre Heimat Türkei gereist ist, in der Hoffnung, dort die Einwanderungspapiere zu erhalten, die ihr die Rückkehr zu ihrer Familie in den Vereinigten Staaten ermöglichen würden. Die lange Trennung ist für Sila kaum zu ertragen. Das ändert sich jedoch, als Sila ihren Vater, der als Mechaniker tätig ist, außerhalb ihrer Stadt in Oregon begleitet, um einen Lastwagen zu reparieren. Dort lernt sie Gio kennen, der nur wenige Monate zuvor in der staatlichen Lotterie gewonnen hat.