This book was recognised in the Nonfiction - Tween category by the Grand Canyon Reader Award.

There are 152 pages in this book. This book was published 2012 by Houghton Mifflin .

HP Newquist (www. newquistbooks. com) is the author of more than a dozen nonfiction books for children, including The Book of Blood, a National Science Teachers Association Outstanding Science Book of the Year and the critically acclaimed The Great Brain Book, an NSTA and Children's Book Council Outstanding Science Book of the Year.