Rayk was a guide to the Near-Star Planets. He had been to Glise many times and watched it grow. It had once been a quiet desert planet. Then factories had sprung up two years ago. They were very modern. And their products were cheap and good.

Gilse had ____________.

He could not cross the Pacific alone. He needed five strong men to help. Thor found four of them in Norway. Their names were Knut, Erik, Torstein, and Herman. The other man, Bengt, came from Sweden.

They would go _____________.

Cal stepped up to take his turn. He was a good bowler, Jenny saw. He took the game more seriously than the other three.

Cal was ___________.

"You'll have to clean up some when we get there, Bill," Curt laughed. "Or they won't let us in to eat anywhere! And we can't miss Natchez catfish! Best there is!"

Bill is too _____________.

At first, nothing seemed to go well at Kitty Hawk. The building the brothers worked in blew down in a storm. So they had to put up another building. Then this building was almost lost in another storm!

The building was ____________.

Cherokees respected shamans. People went to see shamans if they had problems.

People went to see shamans for ___________.

Just then he saw Jessie looking up into the tall trees. He looked up, too. The wind was not blowing at all, but one tree was moving. There was a crash, and down came a coconut.

They watched the coconut ______________.

He dreamed they were with the knight again. All three of them riding the black horse through the cool, dark night. Beyond the outer wall of the castle. And up over a moonlit hill.

The dream was ______________.

"Yes, this is my city. Wait till you see the beautiful Old City! Right now all you see is this." He pointed to the miles of tall apartment buildings on both sides of the freeway.

He is _____________ of his city.

Smith rode his bike back there the next day. He saw the woman again at the same time. It was ten o'clock sharp. She was running down the driveway from the back of her house.

The woman was _________________.

In 1880, Wilson Bentley took his microscope out in the snow. He loved looking at snowflakes with it. They were beautiful and always different. He tried sketching them. But they melted quickly. So he combined his microscope with a camera. Bentley took snowflake pictures for nearly 50 years.

Bentley liked to _________ snowflakes.

A mother cat can have between two to five kittens at once. She carries them for 60-70 days. They are very small. The mother must feed them. She cares for them until they are six weeks old.

They are _________________.

He found a ship that was going to New York. The captain agreed to take him along. Ben sold his books to raise a little money. And in the fall of 1723 he sailed away.

Ben had a _____________.

Children's House was on top of a hill. It was really a group of five buildings. They sat close together in a semi-circle. The grounds around the buildings were lush and green.

Th setting of the Children's House was. __________________

"It's a bad thing you've done," Diggory said in a whisper. "Its a bad, bad thing! Don't you know you're never to cross the captain? He's lord and master on his ship. Keep your head down. Stay out of his way till he's cooled off. If he finds you now, there's no telling what he might do."

The captain is _____________.