Although I thought this book was entertaining I was very disappointed by the way the female characters were portrayed.2 of the girls were very shallow and stupid sounding (extemely annoying) seemingly unconcerned with the task at hand. The others were evil.In the end the boys were the heros, rescuing one of the helpless girls from an evil witch woman.The girls were also describe in terms of their level of physical attractiveness, beauty, sexuality. The boys weren't.I hate to be so picky, but it was sort of disappointing to see this level of passive sexism in a book for younger teens.