This book has been graded for interest at 7-10 years.

This book was published 2010 by Atheneum Books for Young Readers .

Peter Brown is a graduate of the Arts Center College of Design in Pasadena. He grew up in New Jersey and now lives in Brooklyn. Haven Kimmel is the author of The Used World , She Got Up Off the Couch , Something Rising (Light and Swift) , The Solace of Leaving Early , and A Girl Named Zippy . She studied English and creative writing at Ball State University and North Carolina State University and attended seminary at the Earlham School of Religion. She lives in Durham, N. C. Peter Brown is the author of Children Make Terrible Pets and the critically acclaimed artist of Chowder and Flight of the Dodo . He is a graduate of the Art Center College of Design in Pasedena, California. He now lives in Brooklyn, New York. Visit Peter at PeterBrownStudio. com.