This book is the winner of numerous awards. It was recognised in the YA category by the Golden Sower Award. It was recognised by the Georgia Children's Book Award. It also was recognised in the Grades 6-8 category by the Buckeye Children's Book Award. It was recognised in the YA category by the Beehive Award. Also it was recognised by the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award. It was recognised in the Grades 6-8 category by the Sunshine State Young Reader's Award. It was recognised in the Junior / YA category by the South Carolina Childrens Junior and Young Adult Book Award. It was recognised by the Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award. It was recognised in the Grades 6-8 category by the Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award.

This is book 1 in Dark Life .

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

There are 297 pages in this book. This book was published 2016 by Scholastic US .

Kat Falls grew up in Silver Spring, Maryland and now teaches at NU, where she is continually inspired by her students' creativity. She started writing DARK LIFE as a writing exercise. Knowing that her 12-year-old son loved reading about the ocean, Wild West pioneers and, of course, the X-Men, she combined his interests and created the premise for a story that kept her up nights plotting and world-building. Kat lives in Evanston, Illinois with her husband, theatre director Robert Falls, their three lively children, two cats, two guinea pigs and a snake named Poncho.