This book is part of a book series called Deltora Quest .

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

There are 144 pages in this book. This book was published 2001 by Turtleback Books .

Emily Rodda is the author of the hugely successful Deltora Quest series, with over two million copies in print. Winner of the Children's Book Council of Australia's Book of the Year (Younger Readers) Award a record five times, she seems to know instinctively what children want to read. She currently lives in Sydney, Australia.