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Birthday Box By Jane Yolen
everyone I know goes away in the end-Johnny cash in birthday box by Jane Yolen. Katie lost her mom on her tenth birthday in the hospital and her last word were it’s you but she finds happiness and here our my reasons she learns that the box is her and starts to fill it up.

Because of this She is devastated and moves in with her dad and step mom and step siblings and is mean to them. At first but later learns that even though times our Hard there is always a light side. and she begins to be nice to them.

Finally She finds happiness and meaning to life starts to enjoy life for once since her mom died and writing with the fountain pen she got for her birthday and writes in the journal she got and is filling up the box with everything.

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