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This is exactly what Charlie Fox readers have come to expect from her--she takes the proverbial licking and keeps on ticking, and kicking, swinging and everything else. Best of all, she thinks--she plots, she improvises, she keeps on trying. Not to sound cliché, but this damsel finds herself in plenty of distress--and gets herself out of it (occasionally with help--but not in a Nell Fenwick sort of way; more like Lt. Templeton Peck way).