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Prediction: I think that someone will buy Minerva the ukulele she’s been asking for, for a long time, because everyone knows that Minerva has been dealing with tough times with the dad she never knew and her own life. She even wrote her own song about how she feels. I realized why Minerva wants a ukulele, because she wants to play it with her song that she wrote.
Date: 2/8/16, Author: Mary Amato, Pages: 136-204, Minutes: 50 min., Book: Get Happy.
Summary: Minerva has the worst sixteenth birthday. She wanted a ukulele so badly, but she gets a navy blue cardigan as a birthday present. When she walks out the door to go to school, a mailman was holding a letter that was from her father that she never knew about. When her friend Finnegan tells her
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