Their relationship is not perfect at the end of the story, but it is improved. Marly and Joe come to understand one another better as they learn to celebrate their differences.
I also enjoyed the focus on sibling relationships. I rejoiced along with her when the sap first rose in the trees and when "the twigs turned to lace" and when her daddy started feeling better after everything that had happened to him in the war. Marly is most admirable in her search for miracles and especially in her discovery that she can create her own miracles. I am not at all surprised that this book won the Newbery Medal in 1957: besides having a pleasant pastoral narrative and lyrical dialogue, Miracles has an engaging, young, at times naive main character.
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