You know what? This slaps.

I read this book over and over as a kid, and it left such an imprint that more than a decade later I could have recited to you the entire plot. It holds up. It did seem like a breeze to read this time, a lot shorter than I remember, but still.

The quarry-speak? The sisterhood? The moment when the girls give each other test answers sitting out on the mountain hillside? Miri's economic coup de grace? The entire b-plot of the bandit attack? Britta's secret identity? There's so much here crammed into an hour-long read and I enjoyed the heck out of it.