This book has been graded for interest at 8-12 years.

There are 147 pages in this book. This book was published 2002 by Perfection Learning .

Joan Lowery Nixon was the author of more than 130 books for young readers and was the only four-time winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Best Young Adult Mystery Award. She received the award for The Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore , The S ance , The Name of the Game Was Murder , and The Other Side of the Dark , which also won the California Young Reader Medal. Her historical fiction included the award-winning series The Orphan Train Adventures, Orphan Train Children, and Colonial Williamsburg: Young Americans.