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__﻿The Witches __

This book was written by one of the most creative authors in the world! This book gives you the chills and the thrills by all of the impossible physical features on witches that they hide under masks or shoes. Get ready to learn EVERYTHING about witches, because Roald Dahl inserts so many details in all of his books that makes you want to continue reading until the book is over!!!

**Genre: Fiction** **Setting: The Magnificent Hotel in Bournemouth (England)** **Main Characters**:**The Grand High Witch, Sammy, Sammy's grandmother,** **Bruno Jenkins and all of the other witches in England** **Author: Roald Dahl**

Summary Of The Witches ﻿Exposition Sammy and his grandmother were staying at Hotel Magnificent in the town Bournemouth for a few days trying to solve a crisis. The main problem was a bunch of witches were going to open their own candy store and put a special type of potion called the Mousemaker in every piece of candy so every child in the world that would eat a piece of candy from one of those stores would eventually turn into a mouse forever! The characters in the book are Sammy, Sammy's grandmother, Bruno Jenkins, The Grand High Witch and all of the other witches in England. ﻿ Rising Action  Sammy and his grandmother were staying at Hotel Magnificent at the same time all of the witches in England were. Sammy and his mouse were hanging out in the main ball room when all of a sudden the witches come piling in the ball room. Sammy hid behind the curtains because witches liked to eat children. He didn't want to be trapped in a room full of witches. The witches were having a top secret meeting that no other person could hear, so they locked the door with a bunch of chains. The witches were talking about a way to get rid of every child in the world, so the Grand High Witch came up with the idea of every witch creating their on candy store and creating the Mouse-maker. The witches ended up finding Sammy and turned him and a classmate Bruno into a mouse with the potion.

Sammy told his grandmother everything that happened. They had to take Bruno with them to try to tell his parents as kind and as careful as they could. When Sammy's grandmother tried to explain that Bruno was a mouse to his parents, they thought that Sammy's grandmother was a crazy old lady not knowing what she was talking about and they just walked away. Sammy and his grandmother came up with an idea to sneak in the Grand High Witch's hotel room and steal the bottle of potion from her and exterminate it. Thankfully, the Grand High Witch's hotel room was right below theirs! His grandmother grabbed her basket of yarn and set Sammy in the basket and lowered the basket to the Grand High Witch's balcony. Once Sammy was lowered to the Grand High Witch's balcony, Sammy looked around the room and the last place he checked was under the bed, and a smart idea the Grand High Witch made was she sewed the bottle of potion into the hotel mattress. So Sammy had to chew through the mattress with his strong teeth. All of a sudden the Grand High Witch had walked in when Sammy was still in the room. She saw the basket with yarn dangling from her balcony, so she walked out on the balcony to find Sammy's grandmother on the other end of the string.

Sammy's grandmother had said that she had almost dropped her basket and had just been pulling it back to her. Fourtunatlly, the Grand High Witch fell for the silly excuse. Once the Grand High Witch left the room, Sammy had eventually gnawed through the mattress and had been able to take the potion with him back to his grandmother's hotel room. They were all wondering how to get rid of the witches and the potion, and finally Sammy came up with a brilliant idea of putting the potion in the witches' food so they will all turn into mice! But Bruno and Sammy's grandmother were both wondering how they were going to put potion in every single witches' meal. They didn't even have a clue where the other witches' hotel rooms were. Sammy said that the witches had planned a soup dinner with the hotel manager that evening. He could put the potion in the soup the witches' were going to eat. Once that was said the plan finally made sense. Soon after the discussion they all headed to where the witches and the hotel manager were having their soup dinner. Once they got to the hotel restraunt their eyes immediately drew to the 20 foot table in the middle of the restraunt with every single witch and the hotel manager. Sammy snuck in the kitchen to pour the potion in the soup the witches' were going to eat. Once he had done that, he had crawled on the top of the counter so none of the chefs could see him. Sammy was thinking to himself how cool it was being a mouse when all of a sudden one of the chefs had started screaming! The chef grabbed the closest and sharpest knife he could find and started swinging away. Sammy was running as fast as he could back to the dining room. "YEOW!" Sammy screamed as loud as he could. The chef had chopped off the end of Sammy's tail. It was bleeding and wasn't going to stop until it was treated. He had escaped and got back to his grandmother and Bruno with good news and bad news. He had told them about what had happened. His grandmother hadn't took the story about his tail well, but she grabbed her hankerchief out of her purse and tied it around the end of Sammy's tail so it would stop the bleeding. Climax!

Finally the waiters came piling out of the kitchen with trays of soup. They all started slurping the soup from the soup and they all really seemed to enjoy the soup. Suddenly, all of the witches were itching and twitching and hopping and dropping to the floor. All of the other people eating dinner were speechless and then all rushed out of the restraunt as quickly as possible before they could find out what was happening. Soon every single witch had turned into a mouse, and all of the chefs had come out of the kitchen with a sharp tool in each hand and started chopping away the mice one by one. Soon all of the mice were no longer alive, and Sammy and his grandmother had left the hotel and went back home in Norway.

= Evaluation = I Loved this book from beginning to end! The book gives a lot of creative details that just has your imagination overflowing with pictures of these witches. It will give you clear pictures in your head and it will stay in your head throughout the book. It's a lot of detail, but it's so interesting and different than a lot of books! It wasn't exactly my favorite book by Roald Dahl, but it was still a really good book. I'm sure you would agree that __The Witches__ is a really good book, too. Maybe it would even be your favorite book! I encourage people that have big imaginations and like silly stories to read __The Witches__ by Roald Dahl because it will get your mind going!

=Links = A website to learn more about the author and his books is [] I chose this link because it gives information about the author and his books. There are some fun activities to do on the website as well. It has some of illustrations from his books and even characters from __The Witches__ pop up!

Another book review on __The Witches__ by Rebecca Depumpo. http://lakeshorelanguagearts.wikispaces.com/The+Witches+2 The reason why I chose to add this as a link is because it shows two points of view from reading the same book. We both will have different opinions on the evaluation. Even though we both read the same book our summaries are not going to be exactly the same!

Witches are the main idea of the story. Well you may be thinking ohh witches aren't real. They're just make believe creatures in books and are what people dress up as on Halloween. Whoever is thinking that is wrong! There are such thing as witches, but not the same definition. Real witches don't plan on eating children. Their definition is called Witchcraft. []