Kathleen sorry I am doing this last minute but I had to tell you that I am changing my last book which was gonna be about a horse and training it to Butter the book by Erin Jade Lange and I don’t really why I decided to change it I just did it seemed like an interesting book and so I changed it. Anyways I just wanted to let you know. Thank you!

Reading this book has changed my life and I have loved getting to know Dell Duke and Willow and all the other character. I have been enjoying this book since the day I read it and I can’t tell you Kathleen how much I am loving these characters and I every time something new happens I always compare it with some other book or some other characters and over time i have seen myself get better at comparing and contrasting these kinds of books.

Now lately I have been getting confused because I thought the main girl was Mai and then I was like no its Willow. Silly me! And so I had to go back and read the section I did that in and keep reminding myself that the main character is Willow not Mai, anyways after that I got back on track with my reading and are about 3/4 of the way done and could possibly finish by Friday. Through out this book it has been one heck of an adventurer and I couldn’t love it more. But I have always wondered. Why does Quang-ha kinda hate or dis like Willow ?

I have figured out that this is my favorite kinda genre and I’m glad I figured that out cause I have always had a feeling for this kinda genre and books. Such as A Mango-Shpaed Space, Out of my Mind, Elsewhere and Wonder they all have something in common.

Kathleen I have been doing great I am just about to start my horse lessons back up again and I can’t wait. I have intersed a lot about horse racing lately and have been going into their history to figure out if California Chrome is related to Secretariat and turns out that they are. Since you were wondering some of my favorite shows right now are Arrow, Pretty Little Liars, Switched at Birth, The Fosters and The Walking Dead.

I really am glad you liked Out of my Mind and I’m Glad you liked Counting by 7’s. Write back soon!

– Maddisyn

Hi Kathleen! I am so glad you got back to me Kathleen and for your information I am loving Counting by 7’s and I do see a lot of similarities between Counting by 7’s and Out of my Mind. I do see that between Willow and Melody that they have some difficulties that they don’t fit in, that they don’t have very many friends and I can’t tell you how much that every time I read a book like Counting by 7’s and Out of my Mind I can never put it down and my minds wanders to a different world one where it can see the differences and the similarities between the books.

I see that Melody and Willow have some differences to and similarities but what I see is that they are put into groups like Melody is put into the disabled group that she can’t be smart that she can’t do anything , but guess what she is smart and just because she may be in a wheel chair doesn’t mean that she isn’t smart and sometimes it really bother me that people as soon as they look at someone they always think something about them.

Now what is see in Willow is different then what I see in Melody what I see in Willow is a smart , beautiful , and hasn’t gotten a chance in the world. She hasn’t found her place yet they want to put her into a category like either she is a Misfit, Oddball, Lone Wolf, Weirdo, Genius, Dictator but what the people haven’t noticed is that no one can be in a category and you can’t just force people to be in a category. These people like Dell Duke and Melody’s teacher they want to push away the girls or put them into category’s and they just have to figure out that not everyone belongs in a category and not everyone can be like everyone else.

Another thing I see is that The Giver is kinda of related to these books cause in Out of my Mind they want the people to be smart an when they see Melody they push her out right away and the don’t give her a chance. Now when I look at the Giver I think of this book because in the giver they all think the same and they want them to think the same to have no rights to think differently and guess what that’s messed up and they don’t even notice what there really doing say someone took away my rights I would go against them and ask for my rights back. What I have realized is that the people in the Giver is that they don’t realize that they don’t have rights and that they think the same as anyone else. My point being is that they may not have rights ….which bothers me but since there happy I guess I can’t blame them .

~ Maddisyn Helseth

P.S I want to thank Kathleen for giving me some of the ideas about connecting the two books together! Write back soon!

I have been reading Counting by 7’s now four about 2 weeks and I kinda think its confusing but I don’t know how. I really like the character Willow Chance because I can relate to her my dog past away when i was in Oregon and I was devastated. It felt like I never got to say goodbye and that’s what happened to Willow when her parents got in a terrible accident. This book just keeps getting better and better and I can’t wait to finish it.

P.S Kathleen please let me know how your doing on Out of my Mind.