The moral of “Phoenix Farm” by Jane Yolen is, sometimes you just need to take things in and get over it. The narrator was told that her dad ran away, but she would say he was dead, “Mama says it won’t be forever, but I say he died. I can deal with it that way.” (Yolen 127). The narrator is saying that she can deal with it if her dad is really dead, so she is taking it in, and getting over it. Then at the end of the story, the narrator and her family is living with their grandmother grandmother. One day her dad comes back, and she is excited, but she figured no one else would be, “Grandma would be furious. Nicky and Mama might be too. But I didn’t care. There’s dead. And there’s not” (Yolen 131). The family isn’t satisfied with the dad, and