RebeccaWith Mr. Henry out of town for a couple of weeks, Allie is taking care of his dog Hoover. But she has been getting some strange dreams, and the ghost is setting off her brothers allergies. As she and her friend Dub work through the possibilities, she realizes that the ghost must be a dog! It would account for the allergies that her brother is experiencing. and the smell that accompanies the ghost when it appears.
But in keeping with her promise to her teacher, she and Dub attempt to go and make friends with the new kid in town, LJ. But they do not get off to a good start. In trying to help him with some cutting that he is doing, Allie startles him and he makes a mistake. Then his father shows up, and he is angry. Allie finds herself feeling sorry for LJ, and the tempestuous father that he has. She cannot image what life must be like for the young boy with such a father figure in his life. But they do not stick around to talk. They take off, putting as much distance between them and the Cutler house as they can.
But Allie and Dub are still going to go ahead with their plan to make the healthy dog treats and sell them in the local pet shop, but even their friend Jason seems to be acting weird. He wants to keep his job, so he does not want to say anything that would cost him his job, but Allie knows that there is more that he wants to say, and she is determined to get to the bottom of it.
This week we are reading Chapters 6-10
Questions:
- Do you think Allie is right in deducing the ghost is a dog?
- How would you have reacted to the situation at the Cutler house?
- What do you make of the way that Hoover acted toward Mr. Cutler later in the afternoon?
