This book has been graded for interest at 12-18 years.

There are 224 pages in this book. This book was published 2011 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr) .

Monika Schroder grew up in Germany and lived there for the first thirty years of her life. She studied history at the Ruhr University in Bochum and worked in the German parliament before becoming an elementary-school teacher. She has taught in international schools in Egypt, Chile, and Oman and is currently the elementary-school librarian at the American Embassy School in New Delhi, India. This is her first novel.