Kayla Martin  

            The book that I read this semester is called The Witch Catcher by: Mary Downing Hahn. The Witch Catcher is about a little girl named Jen whose great uncle gave his mansion to her father. So they go out and move into this huge house that has all of her father’s great uncles stuff in it and its all pretty much paintings and artifacts. Jen's father has a girlfriend her named Maura and she’s suspected to be a witch but Jens father doesn't believe her. So Jen fallows her to work one day and finds a bunch of these glass bulbs which are called WITCH CATCHER and Maura buys them off of people because legend says they used to use them back in the day to catch witches. Jen went into the Tower and found one and liked it so much that she hid it from Maura her father and everyone else. But one day Mr. A came over and that was when he hypnotized Jen and she went upstairs to get it and her cat Tinker broke it. So the next day Jen went outside and in the bush was a witch green and wearing rangy clothes. After that an amazing thing happened that changed Jens life forever….

            The one thing I liked about this book was that it was mystery based and I love mysteries. Another thing I loved the characters and how Jens personality was. I liked that Maura was so secretive. I also liked how it always made me wonder what was next and it made me jump out of my skin because of the times Jen went into the tower knowing that it could fall at any time. I didn't like how it ended it made me really mad that I won’t read another book by her ever. I didn't like how it didn't answer some of my questions and how it stated stuff but you never heard about what happened after. If you ask me its just like the harry potter books it never answers your questions but it keeps you standing and jumping out of your skin. But the movies are always good and never leave you out.

            I recommend this book to 10 and 11 year old only if they can read on their grade levels it not 13 year old  I wouldn't recommend it to anyone younger because it talks about witches and what they were back then and it might scare little ones. And it is a hard book to read because it has a lot of challenging words and that’s coming from a 9^th grader. I recommend this book to people who like mystery and like to have that feeling that you can’t stop reading it. I would give this good four stars only because its hard to read at some points and it had a very bad ending to the book which was annoying.