It takes her a couple of months to settle into her new life and her new routine, but eventually Willow is ready to start gardening again, which marks a significant step in her emotional healing. When the time comes for the home inspection, everyone helps turn Dell's junk-filled bachelor apartment into a passable family home. The Nguyens live in a shabby garage behind Pattie's nail salon, and fearing they will not pass the home inspection from Child Services, Pattie puts down Dell's address at the Gardens of Glenwood as her own. Sympathizing with Willow, Mai and Quang-ha's mother, Pattie, allows her to stay.
Willow has no relatives who can take her in after the accident, so Mai decides to lie to the police so that Willow can stay with the Nguyens. When they take her home, police officers are waiting there inform them that Willow's parents have died in a car accident. The novel begins on a beautiful afternoon, and Willow is enjoying ice cream with Mai, Quang-ha, and Dell.
She befriends the driver, Jairo Hernandez, and her insightful observations and comments lead him to reevaluate his life choices and finally go back to school. Wanting to spend more time with Mai before her sessions, Willow starts calling a taxi to bring her from school to Dell's office. Willow befriends the girl, Mai, and goes so far as to learn Vietnamese so that she can converse with her new friend in her native tongue. One day, Willow arrives to a counseling session and two high-schoolers, Mai and Quang-ha Nguyen, a sister and brother duo, are waiting for Dell. Dell has never met a student like Willow, and her intelligence inspires him. As a result, she meets with the school's behavioral counselor, Dell Duke. Willow struggles through her first few weeks at Sequoia Middle School, during which time her teacher accuses her of cheating on a test she completed perfectly. She knows she is different and has only ever felt truly accepted by her adoptive parents, Jimmy and Roberta. The novel's protagonist is 12-year-old Willow Chance, a “highly gifted” girl fascinated by the number seven, plants, and medicine.
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