This book has been graded for interest at 14+ years.

There are 158 pages in this book. This book was published 2013 by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers .

Angela Johnson was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, but raised in Windham, Ohio; the only girl in a family of five. She now lives in Northeastern Ohio in a hundred year old house full of plants. When not writing she travels. On one of her trips to the California desert the inspiration for her first novel, Toning the Sweep came about.