This is volume 1 in Ruby Red Trilogy .

This book has been graded for interest at 12-17 years.

There are 324 pages in this book. This book was published 2012 by Turtleback Books .

Anthea Bellwas awarded the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize (USA) in 2002 for her translation of W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz . Her many works of translation from French and German (for which she has received several other awards) include the Nicholas books and, with Derek Hockridge, the entire Asterix the Gaul saga by Rene Goscinny and Albert Uderzo. Kerstin Gier is the New York Times -bestselling author of the Ruby Red trilogy, which has been translated into twenty-five languages.