This is book 1 in The Mistmantle Chronicles .

This book has been graded for interest at 9-12 years.

There are 282 pages in this book. This book was published 2006 by Disney-Hyperion .

Margi McAllister lives in Hebdon Bridge, Yorkshire. Her first novel, A Friend for Rachel (now called Secret Mice), was published in 1997. Several more titles followed, and Margi then began to write full-time. This is her third book for Bloomsbury and she is also published by Oxford University Press and Lion Publishing.