n actual person in these books, with a metabolism, and the type of person that wonders where her kidnappers shop. (you know you would have that sort of inane thought, too.)i liked this one especially because it featured and explained so many things in the later book that i read (i had NO clue there was such a thing as an S.K. hot dog) and whitney and feeney and crow and UNCLE SPIKE. the brief ment