This book was recognised by the Tayshas Reading.

This book has been graded for interest at 12+ years.

There are 379 pages in this book. This book was published 2009 by Houghton Mifflin .

Laura Whitcomb grew up in Pasadena, California where she lived in a mildly haunted house for 12 years. She has taught English in California and Hawaii. The winner of three Kay Snow Writing Awards, she was once runner up in the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction contest for the best first sentence of the worst science fiction novel never written. She lives in Portland, Oregon, with her dog Maximus.