In Our Words Canadians Reading Together

It was a long and rough journey, but the kids had no other choice. They had come too far to turn back. The kids crawled slowly across the railway tracks. Daylight had come when they finally got the other side. The kids were tired and hungry so they decided they would eat the food they had in their backpack.

Lizzy asked, “Peter, where is the backpack?”

Peter looked around and Johnny said, “I forgot to take it off the trolley.”

So the kids started to walk along the road and over the field to get to the castle that was up on a cliff surrounded by water. They followed a long old stone walk up to the drawbridge. On a stone it said, 1398. Then the drawbridge opened like someone knew the kids were coming. The kids went in and their eyes looked all over the entrance room. The castle looked so spooky and there were cobwebs over everything. The room was huge and it had a fireplace and torches on the walls. The windows were small and there was a suit of armour standing in the corner. The kids examined it and then they went and looked through the other rooms in the castle. There was a big ballroom too. When they got to the kitchen they were shocked to see food on the table. The kids were scared because they felt someone was in the castle. The kids took off running out from the kitchen. When they stopped running Lizzy and Della said they saw enough and wanted to go home.

Johnny said, “Are you scaredy-cats?” and he laughed at the girls.

Peter said, “We are not going home till we find out what is going on here.”