I am reading To Walk The Sky Path by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. In my last reading Charlie,Billie and Jeff went frogging and Jeff fell into the swamp. The "Big one" (a large gator) started to attack Jeff. They barely got away. I wonder if Jeff will want to come back out to Billie's camp. I would want to come back to the camp but I wouldn't want to go frogging. Will Tiger and Mush Jim find the big one when they go out to look for her? Will Billie and Charlie going to go to Miami with Jeff?

When I did my reading this week, I found out that Jeff didn't come back soon. Instead, this chapter was about Billie's relationships with his family. He tried to borrow two library books to read with Charlie, but he was only supposed to check out one so he got in trouble. Mrs. Kelly gave Billie flash cards because the books he tried to check out were above Charlie's reading level. When Billie got home, he went over the flash cards with Charlie. A word I needed clarified was "intently". Mom says it means "firmly" or "seriously".

I am reading To Walk The Sky Path by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. In my last reading Mush Jim went alligator wrestling and took Billie with him. Billie saw Jeff at the same place Mush Jim was wrestling alligators and Jeff asked Billie if he could go home with him. I wonder if Jeff will try to come over to Billie's or just walk home. I think Jeff will come over to Billie's chickee because he wants to see what it's like and because he wants to play with Billie. How will Sahoki react if Jeff comes to their camp? Will she yell at Billie for bringing Jeff if he does come? If there was someone in my house that I didn't know I would probably be mad just like Sahoki would be. I predict that Sahoki will not be too upset but will be disappointed with Billie.
When I read, I found out that Jeff did come over to Billie's camp and that Sahoki was mad but not for long. When I was reading I had trouble with the word warily. I asked my mom and she said that it meant cautiously.

I am reading To Walk the Sky Path by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. In my last reading, tourists had come and watched Billie's family when they were bathing and washing their clothes. Will Billie's family do anything to keep the tourists away? If I was part of Billie's family, I would! I wonder what will happen when Billie goes back to school. What will the teacher say? I think the teacher will be disappointed in Billie because he missed a lot of school.

When I read, I found out that Mush Jim put up a sign at the camp that made tourists want to stay away. The sign said "Cholera. Quarantine. Department of Public Health." Billie asked Mr. Bernard what the sign meant. Mr. Bernard said it meant that there is a dangerous disease in the camp and no one was allowed in until the sign is taken down. Billie liked Mr. Bernard but he didn't like Mrs. Kelly. I wouldn't like Mrs. Kelly either. She was mad that he had missed weeks of school but did not care about what had happened to him and his family. Mr. Bernard seems to care about Billie. A word that I needed clarified was cholera. I read further and discovered that it is a dangerous disease. My mom says it give you really bad diarrhea.

I'm reading To Walk the Sky Path by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. Last time I read, Billie was thinking about leaving Jeff's house and going home to help his family rebuild. Will he will really go back to Mush Jim's shack or will Jeff will talk him into staying longer? If I were Billie I would go home because I would miss my family and I'd want to help them out. I predict Billie will go home. Another question I had was, how will Jeff feel if Billie leaves? Will it hurt his feelings? I think Jeff will be unhappy if Billie leaves.

When I read, I found out that Billie did go home. I also discovered that Jeff was not happy that Billie left. When Billie got to Mush Jim's shack, everyone was arguing about where to build the camp. The grandparents wanted to go back to the island. Mush Jim and Tiger wanted to stay near Mush Jim's shack. They decided to build their camp near Mush Jim's shack. Many people volunteered to help build the camp. Billie and Charlie helped with every step so they would know how to do it. Then tourists came while the family was bathing in the water and tried to take their pictures. If I had been Billie's family I would have been embarrassed and upset, just like they were. If I were a tourist, I would be more respectful of people's privacy. When I was reading I had trouble with the word squatter. After I read I asked my mom what it meant and she said it means a person who lives on land that they don't own or rent.

I am reading To Walk the Sky Path by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. In my last reading, the dog was acting strange and Tiger went out in the air boat to see what was happening. He saw sawgrass pollen hanging in the air. Before I read, I predicted that there would be a hurricane. I thought that there might be a bad storm when Tiger saw the saw grass pollen because Indians believe that when sawgrass pollen stays in the air there will be a bad storm. I wondered how the family would survive the storm. Would the hurricane tear their camp up? Where would they go to be safe because they live in a marshy area?

When I read, I found out that they stayed at Billie's school during the storm. I also found out that Billie's family's camp had been destroyed by the hurricane. All the chickees had been washed away and most of their livestock had died in the storm. While I was reading, I had trouble with the word endured. I think it means "go through". I asked my mom, and she said that I was right, or that I could say "tolerated".

At the end of my reading, I discovered that Billie went to Jeff's house for a few days. He thought it was a lot different than the Seminole chickees because they had windows and doors that stayed closed. They had different rooms in one building while the chickees didn't. They were just one big hut, with different huts for different activities.