Box girl / Withrow, Sarah

Gwen, confident her mother who ran away five years earlier is going to return soon and take her to live in France, decides not to make any friends, but her plans fall through when Clara, a new eighth-grader, insists on being friends, and together the two sort out their place with friends, school, and family.

Gwen Bainbridge's runaway mother sends postcards to her after five years, and Gwen forms a box out of the cards and chants over them hoping that a magic spell will bring her to her mother.