This book is the winner of numerous awards. It was recognised by the Oregon Book Award. It was recognised in the Middle School category by the Keystone to Reading Book Award. It also was recognised by the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award. It was recognised in the Grades 6-8 category by the William Allen White Childens Book Award. Also it was recognised in the Ages 10-14 Years category by the Capitol Choices Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens. It was recognised by the Robert F Sibert Informational Book Award.

This book has been graded for interest at 8-12 years.

There are 63 pages in this book. This is a comic strip book. This book was published 2012 by Scholastic US .

Award-winning author and illustrator Allen Say lives and works in Portland, OR. This is his twentieth book for Houghton Mifflin Books for Children.