After her father's death last year and, now, in the throes of a gnarly teacher's beady eye (as she thinks ahead to college), a small black arachnid bites fifteen-year-old Susie Speider on the finger and sends her nights into fantastical dreams about taking revenge on her teacher-a, one, Ms. Morlson-who, ultimately, holds Susie's college aspirations in the sweaty palm of her cold calloused hand. But, when Susie figures out the dreams are real, she...