This book has been graded for interest at 9-12 years.

There are 211 pages in this book. This book was published 2009 by Holiday House .

Raymond Chang was born in Hong Kong, moved to Shanghai when he was very young, and lived in Shanghai during the 1940s, from the Japanese occupation through the Communist regime. He later graduated from the University of London in chemistry and earned a PhD from Yale University. He taught chemistry at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts.