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Author name: Jane Yolen, Adam Stemple

: Pay the Piper: A Rock 'n' Roll Fairy Tale
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Type of bind: Paperback
EAN num: 9780765350411
ISBN number: 0765350416
Label: Starscape
Manufacturer: Starscape
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 192
Printing Date: June 27, 2006
Publishing house: Starscape
Age index: Ages 9-12
Release Date: June 27, 2006
Sale Popularity Level: 746576
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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 filled with fantastical creatures. A world from which there may be no return….




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Rated by buyers 4 out of 5 stars - Pay The Piper
Pay the Piper Book Review

Jane Yolen and Adam Stemple


When I very first picked up this fairy tale book, I was unsure about how good it would be. I thought it was going to be a really corny story where a band was made up of crazy mythical characters. Now, having read the book, I would say that I'd give it four stars out of five.

The book is about a fourteen-year old girl named Calcephony McCallan (everyone just calls her Callie though). She is a rather unimaginative reporter for her school. Since she lives in a small town, she is really surprised and delighted when she learns that one of her favorite bands "Brass Rat" is going to play a concert there on the day before Halloween. Even though she has really strict and embarrassing parents, she manages to convince them to not only get her tickets, but a backstage pass to interview the band for the school newspaper as well.

After the concert is over Callie realizes there's some questions she forgot to ask the band during intermission. However, before she opens the door to the purple room, she hears the band members having an argument about some sort of teind. Then, the subsequent day, all of the children (except for Callie) disappear. She already has a hypothesis of who is responsible for this deed, but now she must figure out why they did it and how to get the kids back.

This book reminds me of a great story for all ages I read a couple of years back. It was called The Phantom Tollbooth. They are related in the sense that they both have a main character who doesn't have an imagination and is sent to a magical land and must learn to think "outside the box" in order to overcome a challenge and be allowed to return to their home.

There are a few reasons why I enjoyed reading this book. First, I love the authors' style of writing. Jane Yolen and Adam Stemple were very descriptive. Also, I am obsessed with music, so I like any story that has to do with that (except for when the music is jazz). Finally, I took pleasure in reading this tome because it involves part of a myth.

The only reason I gave it four instead of five stars is because it took longer than usual for the plot to develop. Other than that, I think it is a fabulous book and I highly recommend it to people who love fairy tales because it has an unusual twist.


Rated by buyers 3 out of 5 stars - R and R Fairy Tale
Pay the Piper, by Jane Yolden, tells of girl, Callie, who discovers that an exciting new rock band, called the Brass Rat, is from another dimension and is kidnapping children as the result of a curse. Callie ends up following the bands leader, Grigras, into the other dimension and is able to break the curse put on him and his associates. The writing style was impressive and linked the genres of realistic fiction and fantasy very well. However, there is a lack of excitement in the story and that can cause a reader to lose interest in the book quickly. This is not a book for readers who are looking for a thrill.


Rated by buyers 3 out of 5 stars - R and R Fairy Tale
Pay the Piper, by Jane Yolden, tells of girl, Callie, who discovers that an exciting new rock band, called the Brass Rat, is from another dimension and is kidnapping children as the result of a curse. Callie ends up following the bands leader, Grigras, into the other dimension and is able to break the curse put on him and his associates. The writing style was impressive and linked the genres of realistic fiction and fantasy very well. However, there is a lack of excitement in the story and that can cause a reader to lose interest in the book quickly. This is not a book for readers who are looking for a thrill.


Rated by buyers 3 out of 5 stars - Pay The Piper
Pay The Piper by Jane Yolen and Adam Stemple is a fairy tale about Callie, a teenage girl who lives in the valley and claims she has a boring life until the concert. Callie thinks she is an ordinary girl living a boring life in a boring town until her friends spread the news about a band called brass rat coming to town. Little does Callie know that things are about to get a lot more interesting around there. This story has everything from magic to music and is full of adventure, and excitement, also a very interesting plot twist at the end
the author has an interesting style of writing because he gives many details and writes very carefully, even though this style did not appeal to me I would understand why it might appeal to other people. One thing I did like about the book was the way it jumped from character to character every chapter so if I wanted to find out to one person I had to read through the subsequent chapter to find out. Even though the book was a little confusing at very first after a while they started to make more since.
I enjoyed this book most of the time although the author seemed to ramble on but it wasn't an edge of your seat stay up all night reading type books it was a more relaxing walk in the park read. I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys reading fantasy style or fairly tale stylebooks and has more patience when it comes to books. The reason I gave this book a 3 out of 5 is because it was exciting but not exciting enough for me and it could be hard at times to pay attention to.


Rated by buyers 4 out of 5 stars - Pay up, or else
Fantasy and rock'n'roll go together. Led Zeppelin's songs about Middle-Earth, really bad metal bands with fantasy names, and even those cheesy fantasies about punk elves playing electric guitar.

But "Pay the Piper: A Rock and Roll Fairy Tale," a new novel published by Starscape Books (known mainly for reprints) is something a bit different. The very first of a series by Jane Yolen and her rocker son Adam Stemple, this is a more intricate, intelligent rock fantasy. Well written, intriguingly thought out, Yolen's latest collaboration is definitely worth reading.

Classic folk-rockers ("rock'n'reel") Brass Rat are coming to Callie's hometown. Even better, she's the only one with a press pass, allowing her to go backstage and interview the band, especially the eerie, melancholy frontman Peter Gringras. But after she hears strange arguments about being paid -- in gold and silver -- Callie begins to suspect that the band is made up of people who aren't really human.

Then on Halloween, all the kids go missing, except for Callie. She goes in search of her brother and the other children, with the help of Brass Rat's guitarist Scott. On the borders of Faerie, Cally learns that Gringras was exiled to mortal lands, for a deception that went horribly wrong. To save him -- and all the kids -- she has to work out the curse that was laid by the king of Faerie.

Giving a new twist to fairy tales is nothing new. But Yolen takes the basic idea of the Pied Piper, and crafts an elaborate story around it, full of curses, rivalry, friendship, death and spells. There's even a "songbook" at the back of it, and despite the lack of actual musical notes, you can make up some folky-rocky melodies.

And the writers are in fine form here. Yolen and Stemple really craft a solid setting, with a minimalist Faerieland full of lost kids, and a homey New England town where nothing happens. Not to mention a rock concert that may give you goosebumps. But there are some humorous moments, such as Callie encountering the "little princes" in Faerie.

Though Callie is the heroine of this novel, Gringras is the character who stands out. He committed a deceptive crime that snowballed into murder, and now has to pay "gold, silver or souls" in order to stay alive. He feels rotten about it, but is afraid to stop. Equally compelling is Alabas, his immortal bandmate who will do whatever he must to help Gringras.

A really good rock concert can be hypnotic, even if most urban fantasy can't capture it. But Yolen and Stemple do a brilliant job in "Pay the Piper," with its mix of fantasy and rock'n'roll.

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