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A working rock-and-roll guitarist in bands such as the Tim Malloys, Cats Laughing, and Boiled in Lead,
Adam Stemple
has collaborated with his mother
Jane Yolen
on several music books for children, including
The Laptime Song and Play Book
and
Hark! A Christmas Sampler
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FORTHCOMING FROM STARSCAPE

Troll Bridge: A Rock 'n' Roll Fairy Tale

Jane Yolen and Adam Stemple

 

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Contents

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Dedication

Acknowledgments

From the Authors

Epigraph

1. River of Blood

2. Family Jokes

3. Talent

4. At the Concert

5. Ratter

6. Talk Is Cheap

7. Interview

8. Exile

9. More Curses

10. Souls

11. Homework

12. Tricks or Treats

13. Casting

14. Eight O'Clock Warning

15. The Guardian and the Flower

16. Missing

17. A Death in the Family

18. Music Man

19. Resurrection

20. Trail of Sweets

21. Reunion

22. Trail of Tears

23. Story Time

24. Into Faerie

25. Curses

26. Revenge

27. The Buying of Freedom

28. And After

Brass Rat Songs

About the Authors

Forthcoming from Starscape

Copyright

This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this novel are either fictitious or are used fictitiously.

PAY THE PIPER: A ROCK 'N' ROLL FAIRY TALE

Copyright © 2005 by Jane Yolen and Adam Stemple

All rights reserved.

A Starscape Book

Published by Tom Doherty Associates, LLC

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First Edition: July 2005

eISBN 9780765386656

First eBook edition: June 2015

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