I'm re-reading it and am through chapter 16 and well into chapter 17. As I've confessed in some of my chapter comments, the story is only vaguely familiar and I've forgotten where it goes and how it gets there. It has been almost a decade since I read it and clearly too many stories have been read in the intervening years for me to have kept this one in my memory banks which are filled to overflowing. After all, I've been a voracious reader for more than sixty years.....I was going to say sixty-five but the books I read before age 12 probably were not all that memorable anyhow....
As a recent reader of the story I too can heartily recommend it.