This book was recognised by the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award.

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

There are 352 pages in this book. This book was published 2014 by Scholastic Press .

Kathryn Erskine worked as a lawyer for fifteen years beforerealizing that her real passion lay in writing. Mockingbird, her first novel to be published in the UK, won the National Book Award in America in 2011, and garnered wide critical acclaim on its publication here in 2012.