The Secrets of the Pied Piper 3: The Piper's Apprentice

Author Matthew Cody

For Ages
8 to 12

The Secrets of the Pied Piper 3: The Piper's Apprentice is a part of the The Secrets of the Pied Piper collection.

The epic conclusion to the trilogy bestselling author Adam Gidwitz called “a wild fantasy adventure” find siblings Max and Carter embroiled in the final battle against the evil Grannie Yaga!
 
On the mysterious Summer Isle, siblings Max and Carter discovered the magical land where the villainous Pied Piper led the children of Hamelin centuries ago. They were trapped outside of time in a never-ending clash against a vicious rat army. After a desperate battle…

An Excerpt fromThe Secrets of the Pied Piper 3: The Piper's Apprentice

Chapter One

 

 

 

The ogre might not be able to see Carter, but that didn’t mean it couldn’t smell him. The great brute snuffled and sniffed its way through the underbrush below. From his hiding place in the branches of a tall pine tree, Carter could just make out the creature lumbering about as it scoured the trees for its missing meal. The ogre would stop, take a whiff or two at the base of the trunk, grumble in disappointment, and then move on to the next one. Sometimes it’d knock the disappointing tree over for good measure. Ogres were stupid--really stupid--but this one was at least bright enough to know that boys couldn’t simply vanish. And what its beady eyes could not find, its enormous honker just might.

 

It was all the Pied Piper’s fault.

 

If the Piper hadn’t gotten a craving for dessert, and if he hadn’t insisted that Carter conjure him up a cherry pie out of thin air, then Carter wouldn’t have accidentally conjured said pie with such force that it exploded in his face.

 

Then…