This book has been graded for interest at 12-15 years.

There are 128 pages in this book. This book was published 2001 by Cricket Books, a division of Carus Publishing Co .

David Hill, born in 1942, is a versatile journalist, reviewer, fiction writer, playwright and children's writer. Born and educated in Napier and a graduate of Victoria University, he spent 14 years secondary school teaching before writing full-time. He has contributed stories, articles, reviews and plays to newspapers, radio and most New Zealand journals, including Landfall, NZ Listener and School Journal, as well as overseas. He has written many books and in 2002 his novel See Ya Simon won the Children's Literature Association Gaelyn Gordon Award for a Much-Loved Book.