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.