This book has been graded for interest at 4-8 years.

This book was published 2004 by HarperCollins Publishers .

Effin Older is a writer and photographer with more than twenty books to her credit, including her middle grade series Silver Blades Figure Eights. She lives in Vermont. Nancy Hayashi is a graduate of Denison University in Granville, Ohio, and the Cleveland Institute of Art. She lives in Los Angeles. Eileen Spinelli is the author of "Thanksgiving at the Tappletons, "illustrated by Maryann Cocca-Leffler and "Boy, Can He Dance! "illustrated by Paul Yalowitz. She writes poems in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, where she lives wi"