''Numbers'' is a young adult novel by Rachel Ward. Since its release in 2010, Rachel Ward has written two sequels, ''Numbers 2: the Chaos'' and ''Numbers 3: Infinity''.


!!''Numbers'' provides examples of:
* TheBechdelTest: Passes. Jem talks with multiple female characters about a slew of topics other than men.
* BedlamHouse: After [[spoiler:Spider's death]], Jem is admitted to a psychiatric ward and drugged up and sedated. However, Jem doesn't express any positive or negative thoughts about it, except for relief that [[spoiler:she can no longer see the numbers after she spends a while there.]]
* CoolOldLady: Val, Spider's grandmother.
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Spider and Jem, respectively.
* ICannotSelfTerminate: After a while, [[spoiler:Karen becomes disabled by a barrage of strokes]] and has to be cared for by Jem, who she askes to kill her to spare her a life of misery.
* InTheBlood: [[spoiler:Jem's number curse, apparently.]]
* InterruptedSuicide: [[spoiler:Jem decides to jump off the abbey roof in the belief that it will prevent Spider's death by eliminating the person who sees his number. Spider, though, stops her JustInTime. [[YouCantFightFate He himself dies shortly after doing this.]]]]
* NextSundayAD: ''Numbers'' was published in February of 2010 and takes place in the last months of that same year.
* NightmareFuelColoringBook: Adam's drawing of him and his mother Jem. It seems innocent enough, until Adam says that the writing above her head isn't the word "Mummy"... [[InTheBlood it's her special number]].
* RaisedByGrandparents: Spider has been raised by his grandmother Val.
* SadistTeacher: Mr. McNulty
* ScrewDestiny
* SomeoneToRememberHimBy: Adam, the child that [[spoiler:Jem was impregnated with after having sex all of two times with Spider.]]
* YouCantFightFate

!!''Numbers 2: the Chaos'' provides examples of:
* InTheBlood: Adam has inherited his mother's ability to see people's dates of death.
* RaisedByGrandparents: In this case, Adam is being raised by his ''great'' grandmother, Val, because of Jem's death.
* {{Twenty Minutes into the Future}}: Takes place in 2026.