Considering Willow’s perspective, in what ways is Counting by 7s a story about things that have been lost? What does she find along the way?

Willow loses her adoptive parents, but along the way, she eventually she finds happiness in nature.  

Explanation: A huge theme in Counting By 7s is overcoming grief. Willow was in deep grief after her adoptive parents passed away in a car accident. She overcomes that by finding happiness in nature, and we can take that as a lesson for life because we can know that there is always happiness. Hope this helps

closer examination, however, finds the mcdonald's kind of job highly uneducational in several ways. far from providing opportunities for entrepreneurship (the lemonade stand) or self- discipline, self-supervision, and self-scheduling (the paper route), most teen jobs these days are highly structured — what social scientists call “highly routinized.”  

true, you still have to have the gumption to get yourself over to the hamburger stand, but once you don the prescribed uniform, your task is spelled out in minute detail.  

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