Elaborates on the tale of “The Pied Piper,” told from the point of view of a boy who is too ill to keep up when a piper spirits away the healthy children of a plague-ridden town after being cheated out of full payment for ridding Hamelein of rats.

• ISBN: 9780689861772
• Published: 2005 , Simon Pulse
• Themes: Cystic fibrosis, Magic, Middle Ages, Pied Piper of Hamelin, plague
• Descriptors: Folklore and Fairy Tales, Germany, Young Adult (ages 14-18)
• No. of pages: 272