With the mysterious death of Fancy Feet O'Flaherty and the terrifying night of the banshee still fresh in her mind, Meggy is a changed person. Danger lurks everywhere and traitors are among them, but still, Meggy is determined that the children in her village will have a school where they can learn in safety. It will take all of her courage and the help of her friends to make certain they don't pay with their lives.

This book is part of a book series called Meggy Tale .

There are 164 pages in this book. This book was published 2016 by Fitzhenry & Whiteside Ltd .

Kitty Griffin was born in Germany and adopted by Americans. She has traveled from one end of the USA to the other, living at twenty-eight different "permanent" addresses, with much of her childhood spent in Virginia. She has worked as a counselor, a mailman, a waitress, a secretary, and, of course, as a children's book author. She teaches in the MFA Writing for Children program at Chatham University in Pittsburgh, PA. She lives in Washington County, Pennsylvania with her husband and assorted furry friends. She can also be found at www. kittygriffin. com. Marjorie Priceman, illustrator of many acclaimed picture books, has won Caldecott Honors for her illustrations in Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin! by Lloyd Moss and Hot Air: The (Mostly) True Story of the Frist Hot-Air Balloon Ride, which she also wrote. She lives in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.