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All You've Ever Wanted

Story Stats

Rating: 3
Grade Level: 4, 5, 6
Page count: 10

Author

Joan
Aiken

Appeared in

Smoke from Cromwell's Time and Other Stories

Story Summary

Matilda gets a poetic birthday greeting each year from her seventh aunt with the unfortunate side effect that whatever the aunt wishes will come true every day for a year.