This book is called the witches because the whole story is about witches. 

Down below i'll tell you something about the book.

SPOILER ALERT

 

Luke is on holiday to his grandma, when his parents die in a car accident.

Luke then lives with his grandma.

Every night before sleeping grandma tells Luke stories about Witches, how you can recognize them, how they do there jobs and how they can find you.

Luke doesn’t believe grandma’s story until he sees a witch by himself. He was in his tree house when a strange woman came, she wanted to give Luke a chocolate bar and a snake. Luke started to scream to his grandma and the witch go away. From that moment Luke knew that witches are real.

In the Holiday grandma gets sick so they can’t go on holiday to Norway. The doctor said they need to go to a hotel near by the English sea.

Luke gets 2 mouses from his grandma and he decided to train them. So in the hotel he goes tot he conference room and starts to train them. But then many women came inside, the women are from the royal society for the prevention of cruelty to children.

Luke hides and the women lock the door, after that the women started to taking of the wigs.

Luke was locked up in a room with more then 100 witches.

Then the Grand High Witch comes, she has an idea to exterminate all the children from England.

The plan is to open candy shops in whole England, there wil be free candy on the openings day.

On the candy is poison. If you drink the poison you will change into a mouse. So kids want free candy and eat the candy with the poison and in no time they are mouses. People don’t like mouses so they are going to kill them, If that happens then England is child free.

The Grand High Witch wants to show the other witches that the poison really works, so she invited a kid from the hotel named Bruno Jenkins. Bruno Jenkins is a fat boy with rich parents, Bruno does everything for food. So the witches put on their wigs again and Bruno comes tot he conference room. The Grand High Witch gives Bruno a chocolate bar and Bruno changes into a mouse.

After that the meeting is closed but then a witch finds out that Luke is hiding in the room.

The witches gave him a lot of poison and he changes directly into a mouse.

Bruno and Luke went to Lukes grandma, together they thought of a plan to exterminate all the witches.

They want to put a bottle of poison through the soupe from the witches, then they all turn into mouses. Their plan worked and the people from the Hotel killed the mouses.

Luke and his Granda are going back to Norway.

Luke and his grandma find out the adress from the Grand High Witch , they decide to kill every witch on the world together.