This book is the winner of numerous awards. It was recognised in the Red Maple Award category by the Ontario Library Association Forest of Reading Awards. It was recognised by the Rocky Mountain Book Award. It also was recognised in the Choice Selection category by the Canadian Children's Book Centre Awards.

There are 200 pages in this book. This book was published 2003 by Dundurn Group Ltd .

Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch's award-winning books for young people include Last Airlift, a Red Cedar Information Book Award winner and OLA Red Maple Honour Book. Its sequel, One Step at a Time, won the OLA Silver Birch Non-Fiction Award. Her YA novel Dance of the Banished is a Junior Library Guild Selection for 2015. In 2008, in recognition of her outstanding achievement in the development Ukraine's culture, Marsha was awarded the Order of Princess Olha. She lives in Brantford, Ontario.