This book was recognised in the Grades 6-8 category by the Alabama Camellia Award.

This book is part of a book series called Ruby Red Trilogy .

This book has been graded for interest at 12-18 years.

There are 362 pages in this book. This book was published 2012 by St Martin's Press .

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.