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

There are 96 pages in this book. This book was published 1989 by Scholastic US .

Mary Pope Osborne is the author of over forty books for young people. She was the president of the Author's Guild, the leading organization for professional writers in the US, for two years and has won many awards for her books. She lives in New York with her husband, Will, and their dog, Bailey, who sleeps on top of Mary's desk every day while she writes. Troy Howell is the illustrator of the jackets and interiors for the enormously bestselling Redwall series by Brian Jacques as well as a number of picture books. This is his first novel.