This book has been graded for interest at 5-9 years.

There are 40 pages in this book. This book was published 2014 by Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers .

Edie Colon is an elementary school teacher in New York state. She emigrated from Cuba at age 5. This story is based on her childhood. Carole Boston Weatherford is an avid baseball fan and an award-winning poet. She has written more than a dozen books for children. She lives in High Point, North Carolina, with her husband, Ronald; their two children; and a lazy beagle.