1. Compare Anthony's mother, Ginny Monday, with Miss Eells. What is good or bad about Ginny's influence on Anthony? What, if anything, does Miss Eells provide for Anthony that his mother does not?
2. Bellairs makes Anthony's friend a librarian, his enemy a banker. Is he indulging in social stereotypes by doing so? Does the characterization of Miss Eells as a person who spills and breaks things make her more or less endearing to readers? Why?
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