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Gr 5-8 Life in Chadds Ford, PA, in 1934 agrees with 13-year-old Hannah. Full of energy, she helps out as much as she can on the family farm and then goes off to school where she struggles with reading. Her crusty, but beloved, grandfather recognizes her exceptional ability with numbers and encourages her to think about the world beyond the confines of her village. When a Philadelphia philanthropist visits her school, she spots Hannah's special talents and invites her to come to the city to study for a scholarship examination. Hannah's family considers the invitation out of the question, but with Gra...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Although thirteen-year-old Hannah Bennett can hardly read, she is nevertheless offered a chance at a scholarship because of her uncanny ability with numbers. Hannah counts everything. Much of the energy of the book comes from her obsessive counting—"the hours she had lived since her last taste of chocolate ice cream [3,212], the minutes her seventy-nine-year-old self would be on earth at eight in the morning on the first day of the year 1999 (factoring in the 1,440 minutes per extra day times 20 leap years)." Hannah is happy at home on her family farm in 1934 Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, milking the cows and tending to her other chores, so the ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More