This book has been graded for interest at 9-12 years.

This book was published 2013 by Candlewick Press (MA) .

Laura Amy Schlitz, author of Fire Spell and the Newbery Medal-winner Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village, has spent most of her life working as a librarian and professional storyteller. She has also written plays for young people that have been performed in professional theatres all over the US. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland. Robert Byrd is a successful commercial artist and children's book illustrator whose award-winning picture books include Jason and the Argonauts , Electric Ben , and Leonardo: Beautiful Dreamer .