MARY CARPENTER now writes a weekly health column, after a thirty-year career as a staff reporter for Time magazine and as a freelance journalist. Her articles and essays have been published in the Washington Post, the International Herald Tribune, People Magazine, the New York Times, and Cosmopolitan, and she is the author of two other middle-grade books: Rescued by a Cow and a Squeeze: Temple Grandin and Lost and Found in the Mississippi Sound: Eli and the Dolphins of Hurricane Katrina.