This book was recognised in the Information Book category by the Beehive Award.

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

There are 134 pages in this book. This book was published 2004 by Scholastic Press .

Walter Dean Myers is an award-winning writer of fiction, non-fiction and poetry for young people. His many titles include the Newbery Honor Books Scorpions and Somewhere in the Darkness, and the Caldecott Honor Book Harlem in collaboration with his son Christopher, who also worked with him on Monster. Walter Dean Myers grew up in Harlem and now lives in Jersey City, New Jersey, with his family.