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Content levels
ViolenceModerate
Sexual contentNone
LanguageMild
Trigger warnings
Positive tags
Heroine archetypes
Protagonist archetypes
Synopsis
When Callie interviews the band, Brass Rat, for her school newspaper, her feelings are ambivalent, but when all the children of Northampton begin to disappear on Halloween, she knows where the dangerous search must begin.
Is Pay the Piper appropriate for my child?
Suitable for most readers 10 and up.
Children mysteriously disappear on Halloween in this Pied Piper retelling featuring a rock band. Contains suspenseful scenes of missing children and moderate peril, but no graphic violence or mature content.
What to know going in
This book has moderate violence, no sexual content, and mild language. Content notes include child harm and kidnapping.
Who'll love this
A spooky Halloween mystery where kids must solve the disappearance of all the children in town, with a dangerous rock band at the center.
Tags
Contemporary FantasyMysteryFairy Tale RetellingMusic