This book is part of a book series called Orca Echoes .

This book was published 2006 by Orca Book Publishers .

Jo Ellen Bogart was born in Houston, Texas, and studied both elementary education and psychology at the University of Texas. She has written many award-winning, bestselling children's books including Jeremiah Learns to Read, illustrated by Laura Fernandez and Rick Jacobson, and Gifts, illustrated by Barbara Reid. She lives in Ontario, Canada. Find her on Twitter as @JoEllenBogart. Sydney Smith has illustrated multiple children's books, including the highly acclaimed Footpath Flowers, which was a New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book of the Year, winner of the Governor General Award for Illustration and a nominee for the Kate Greenaway Medal. Born in rural Nova Scotia in Canada, Sydney now lives in Toronto. Find him online at www. hutten. org/sydney and on Twitter as @sydneydraws.