I am reading Witches by Roald Dahl. Before I began reading I predicted that this book would be about a bunch of bad witches who went around casting mean spells on people. Will this book be similar to the other Roald Dahl books I've read? Will it take place in England like some of his other books? I hope to find these things out as I read.

When I read I found out that the witches only cast spells on kids. I also discovered that the book mostly takes place in Norway. The narrator of the story is a little boy. His parents are killed in a car accident, so he goes to live with his grandmother in Norway. She tells him stories about how witches carry children away. The little boy thinks his grandmother is making these stories up, and I did too. While I was reading I had trouble with the word barghest. I read around it and decided that a barghest is a bad, magical person. My mom and I looked for the word barghest in the dictionary, but it was not there. We looked it up on the internet, and it said that a barghest is "a monstrous dog with huge teeth and claws from the area around Yorkshire, northern England. It only appears at night."
(from www.pantheon.org/articles/b/barghest.html). Now I know what a barghest is. I'm looking forward to reading more of this book.

I've been reading To Walk The Sky Path by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. In my last reading, Tiger and Mush Jim went to their old island to find a new spot to build a chickee for Abraham and Sihoki. They found out that hunters had established a camp on the old island already. Abraham was so upset that he sat outside of the chickee all day and all night without eating. How will the family make him feel better? Will the family find a better island for Abraham and Sihoki to settle on? I wonder what Abraham is thinking about. I predict that in my next reading, the family will find a new island for Abraham and Sihoki to settle on.

This week, I read the rest of the book. I found out that the family did not find a new island, but that Abraham died. The whole family was sad. I can relate to this because my family and I were sad when my grandfather died last fall. The men and boys in the family carried Abraham's body in a canoe to a faraway island in the Everglades to bury him. He was buried with his favorite things but they had to be broken first to release their spirits to travel with him. Billie thought about Abraham still being alive in spirit because of the stories he had told and the memories he left. A word that I needed clarified was limpkin. I read around it and figured out that it must be some kind of animal. My mom told me that it was a bird. We looked it up in the bird book together.

I am reading To Walk The Sky Path by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. In my last reading Sahoki saw an owl on the top of her cookhouse. She said that it was bad luck. I wonder if anything bad will happen to Sahoki or anyone else in Billie's family. Will Billie get hurt? Another question that I had was, will Billie keep trying to teach Charlie how to read? I think the next chapter will be about Billie going back to school, returning the flash cards, and telling Mrs. Kelly how it went. I think this because the last chapter was about Billie's family, and the author alternates back and forth between Billie's family and school.
When I read I found out that nothing bad happened to Billie, but Sahoki did break her arm. Billie had not returned the flash cards yet, but I think that he will because he's had them for about a month. If I were Billie, I would have returned them by now because a month is a long time to keep something that doesn't belong to you. I had trouble with the word wretchedly. I asked my Mom and she said that it meant miserably.