Paperback
(Random House Books for Young Readers, Sept. 21, 1993)
After the townspeople of Hamelin refuse to pay the gypsy piper for ridding their city of rats, the piper's young apprentice discovers his master's horrifying scheme to revenge himself on Hamelin's children. Reprint.
A novel of the Pied Piper legend told from the standpoint of a 14-year-old baker's assistant who dreams of freedom from his harsh medieval life and of a new life with the piper.