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272 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 1989
Happily, I feel like the story still pretty much holds up. I remember loving it as an 11-year-old, and I love it still as a nostalgic not-so-11-year-old. This was my favorite of the series. I liked the second one (The Return?) okay, but the 3rd was just bizarre. I think Shari (or whoever's body she's inhabiting...doesn't she possess the girl in the 2nd book or something? details are fuzzy) starts trying to write some novel and I remember HUGE chunks of said novel appearing in the book. Also pretty sure Pike went on to publish it separately (The Starlight Chrystal, I want to say?), and even at 11/12, the whole thing felt less like the conclusion of a trilogy and more like a test drive for a new novel. But this one still makes me happy...like comfort food in book form.