Ms. Bixby's Last Day

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Ms. Bixby’s Last Day, By John David Anderson Topher, Brand, and Steve were all placed in room 213 for sixth grade, Steve and Topher previously knew each other, however they met Brand in the cafeteria and became best friends. They came up with a list to classify all of the teachers, the boring ones, the not so good ones, the good ones, the mean ones, and the ones that try to hard. However, their teacher Ms. Bixby was none of these, she was the type of teacher that made school fun and interesting. That was only one of the reasons why Ms. Bixby was very special to the three of them in particularly. Ms. Bixby would always help her students, have fun with them, make them laugh, and cheer them up and that made her very special compared to the other

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