This book is the winner of numerous awards. It was recognised in the Grades 4-6 category by the Golden Sower Award. It was recognised by the Flicker Tale Children's Book Award. It also was recognised by the Sasquatch Award.

This book is aimed at children in primary school.

There are 128 pages in this book. This book was published 2002 by Aladdin Paperbacks .

Kirkpatrick Hill lives in Fairbanks, Alaska. She was an elementary school teacher for more than thirty years, most of that time in the Alaskan "bush. " Hill is the mother of six children and the grandmother of eight. Her three earlier books, Toughboy and Sister, Winter Camp, and The Year of Miss Agnes, have all been immensely popular. Her fourth book with McElderry Books, Dancing at the Odinochka, was a Junior Library Guild Selection. Hill's visits to a family member in jail inspired her to write Do Not Pass Go.