There are 97 pages in this book. This book was published 2000 by Turtleback Books .

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. John Ward has illustrated many books for children, including "We Keep a Store "by Anne Shelby. He lives in Freeport, New York. "