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A rock 'n' roll band to die for….

When fourteen year old Callie McCallan scores a backstage pass to interview the lead singer of the famous band Brass Rat, she's thrilled. Peter Gringras is so cool. When he plays his flute, it's as if he has some kind of hypnotic power. But there is something strange about him, something Callie can't quite put her finger on. Then, on Halloween night, Callie's little brother Nicky disappears, along with all the other children in town. It's crazy, but Callie thinks she knows where the children have gone—and who took them. To prove it, and to rescue Nicky and the other children, Callie must journey to a mythical world ...

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Overview

A rock 'n' roll band to die for….

When fourteen year old Callie McCallan scores a backstage pass to interview the lead singer of the famous band Brass Rat, she's thrilled. Peter Gringras is so cool. When he plays his flute, it's as if he has some kind of hypnotic power. But there is something strange about him, something Callie can't quite put her finger on. Then, on Halloween night, Callie's little brother Nicky disappears, along with all the other children in town. It's crazy, but Callie thinks she knows where the children have gone—and who took them. To prove it, and to rescue Nicky and the other children, Callie must journey to a mythical world filled with fantastical creatures. A world from which there may be no return….

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Publishers Weekly
"The tale of the Pied Piper of Hamelin gets a modern makeover at the hands of this mother-son team," wrote PW of their Pay the Piper. In a follow-up Rock 'n' Roll Fairy Tale book that melds The Three Billy Goats Gruff with The Twelve Dancing Princesses, Trollbridge by Jane Yolen and Adam Stemple stars 16-year-old Moira, a harpist determined to save 11 girls who were selected to have their likenesses carved in butter but wound up enchanted into slumber. A teen boy band on break from a road trip, a magical fox and, naturally, a monstrous troll all figure into the proceedings. Pay the Piper is now in paperback. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
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Fourteen-year-old Callie is determined to see the hot band, Brass Rat. As a reporter for her school paper, she obtains a press pass so that she can interview the band when they give their Halloween concert. Talking her parents into attending the concert is surprisingly easy, as they, too, are fans. So, wonders Callie, just how long has this band been around, and how can they have played for so long when their members look so young? As Callie researches before her interview, one of the band members, Gringas, is making plans of a different, darker variety: It is time to pay the teind, the blood payment for the crime he committed in the land of faeries long, long ago. After the concert and interview, having overheard a mysterious exchange between band members, Callie starts unraveling the puzzle of the band. But before she can warn anyone, all the neighborhood children are lured into the mountains on Halloween night. Callie, too, is lured to follow, but she is determined to save them and break the curse of the piper. Veteran storyteller Yolen works with her musician son on this new interpretation of the Pied Piper of Hamelin story that will intrigue those middle schoolers who enjoy retellings of familiar stories or are lured by tales of the Faerie realm. Those who are fans of Cofer's Artemis Fowl books or Holly Black's Tithe (Simon & Schuster, 2002/VOYA October 2002) will find this novel somewhere in the middle in its depiction of the mysterious land under the earth. VOYA CODES: 4Q 4P M J (Better than most, marred only by occasional lapses; Broad general YA appeal; Middle School, defined as grades 6 to 8; Junior High, defined as grades 7 to 9). 2005, Tor, 176p., Ages 11 to 15.
—Mary Ann Darby

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780765311580
  • Publisher: Doherty, Tom Associates, LLC
  • Publication date: 7/1/2005
  • Pages: 176
  • Age range: 10 - 15 Years
  • Lexile: 750L (what's this?)
  • Series: Rock 'n' Roll Fairy Tale
  • Product dimensions: 5.46 (w) x 7.84 (h) x 0.76 (d)

Meet the Author

Jane Yolen
Jane Yolen
JaneYolen lives in Massachusetts.

John Schoenherr lives in New Jersey.

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Pay the Piper



A Rock 'n' Roll Fairy Tale



By Yolen, Jane


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Copyright © 2006

Yolen, Jane

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ISBN: 0765350416



Pay the Piper
At last Gringas turned, grinned, and winked at Callie.
"Now, do you have any questions for me, young lady?"
"Um..." she said. It was not a good beginning
"Did you ever get enough money for your wife?" Nick asked suddenly.
Callie flushed. Not because it was a stupid question. In fact it was on her own mental list. But to ask it so baldly. And in that way. And the implication that--since Nick was her little brother--she wanted to know the answer especially was too much.
"Nicky," she said, her voice low, "shut up or go away. Or both."
Gringas looked at her a moment, and it was as if only the two of them existed in all the world. His voice was soft, musical, low. "Be careful what you wish, my lady, for it might come true. And then you will have many years to rue it."


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  • Posted August 25, 2009

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    this book was all about the music great story!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    this book was so good. i started on saturday and i am done. this book takes you to a world that you want to be and not want to be. i love the charcater callie she is so real and smart.when she get the chance to write and report for her school paper(for the band brass rat) she is happy but there is something wrong with the band will that what it said on the back of the book. and that what it is about but there is more she knows things and she look at the world diffent then the other people in it. then she has to go to this world name(faerie) to get her brother thats mythical and with creatures that you do not want to see in your life. (she is 14 years old and she knows alot of things she looks at what she has to do and she go for it she is brave i was 14 once but if i want to a world like that i wouldn't know what to know . i dont think i would be that brave maybe i don't know ) but she trys to help out the piper(peter) is his name with something he just this character that you hate him in the beinning but then you see him in a new light at the end of the book i dont want to give alot away but if you like fairy tales this has music its funny you should read it and find out for yourself.

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  • Posted December 9, 2008

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    fine version of the Pied Piper

    Fourteen-year-old Calcephony ¿Callie¿ McCallan is a school reporter school in Northampton, Massachusetts. She is excited by her job because this assignment enables her to go back stage while the popular rock 'n' roll band, Brass Rat performs. The only setback is that her parents make her bring her brother Nick with her. After listening to a recording by the group, Callie wonders why her classmates ate making such a fuss over this band. That is she wonders until she meets the dynamic lead singer Peter Gringras. His flute playing mesmerizes all who listen including Callie. --- However, on Halloween night as the Brass Rat performs, all the children including her kid brother Nick vanish. Callie thinks she knows why the children have been ¿abducted¿ and plans to rescue them as she plans to follow the magic flute into the land of faerie to make the piper pay, but she will soon learn how ¿faerie justice¿ works. --- The middle school crowd will enjoy this fine version of the Pied Piper starring a wonderful young heroine who risks her life to save her sibling and the other children from the unknown. As the audience learns the truth, feelings towards Peter the Pied Piper will change although he still committed the abductions. Young readers will enjoy the first rock and roll fairy tale while looking forward to future fantasies from this solid mother-son collaboration. --- Harriet Klausner

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 28, 2005

    Great Book Good plot

    This book was great I highly reccomend it to any age and for any reader. It was really exciting, you will just want to know more until you know what happend. I also had no idea that it was a true story (with different characters, etc.)

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