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

This book was published 2011 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr) .

Ruth White is a renowned American children's author. She and her sisters grew up in a coal-mining town in the Appalachian mountains, where they played in the hills and creeks. Ruth became a teacher and a school librarian in the eastern United States, and now lives in Pennsylvania.