Avid Spinelli readers will recognize so much of Two Mills from Maniac Magee and Knots in My Yo-Yo String. The hot-pepper zeps are a particular favorite. I was hooked on this book right away and it stayed pretty compelling most of the way through. Based on Knots, Cammie is basically a female version of preteen Spinelli, and since I spent most of my childhood wishing to be a preteen boy in the 1950s, it was right up my alley.